The growth track for Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) has changed recently

With 2.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.29 million shares. During the session, the Tools & Accessories company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $93.94 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $91.51. The 52-week range on SWK shows that it touched its highest point at $110.88 and its lowest point at $77.70 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $107.08. With its current market cap of 14.16 billion, SWK has annualized dividend of $3.25 while the current yield stands at 3.54%. SWK paid its most recent dividend on 1725321600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732838400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.25.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of SWK was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.14%, but this was down by -13.82% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -3.04% while six-month performance rose 4.22%. The stock gained 7.17% in the past year, while it has lost -6.34% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SWK yields -1.24 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.50. For the next quarter, that number is 1.27. This implies an EPS growth rate of 186.36% for this year and 32.37% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 154.16 million SWK shares are outstanding with a float of 153.62 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 4.63 million, which was 300.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Donald Allan Jr. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Patrick D. Hallinan serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.90680003 of SWK’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-28, SWK reported revenue of $3751300000.0 and operating income of $323500000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $444600000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.6.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SWK since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With SWK analysts setting a high price target of 135.0 and a low target of 94.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 106.67. Based on these targets, SWK could surge 46.93% to reach the target high and rise by 2.31% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.1% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.25324 being high and $4.0622 being low. For SWK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.14264. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.84. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.15 and the low estimate is $0.79. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.94.