With 4.71 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 5.88 million shares. During the session, the Security & Protection Services company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $7.708 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.59. The 52-week range on ADT shows that it touched its highest point at $8.25 and its lowest point at $5.63 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.54. With its current market cap of 6.89 billion, ADT has annualized dividend of $0.20 while the current yield stands at 2.63%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.50.
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 ADT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.39%, but this was up by 10.79% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.26% while six-month performance rose 5.41%. The stock gained 32.17% in the past year, while it has gained 11.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ADT yields 0.92 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.80. For the next quarter, that number is 0.19. This implies an EPS growth rate of 43.21% for this year and 9.80% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 3.90% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 25.80%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 867.43 million ADT shares are outstanding with a float of 472.29 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 21.65 million, which was 243.00002000000003 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. James David DeVries as the firm’s CEO, President & Chairman, Mr. Jeffrey A. Likosar serves as its CFO and President of Corporate Development & Transformation.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97887003 of ADT’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 2024-09-30, ADT reported revenue of $1243836000.0 and operating income of $327940000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $681000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.13.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ADT since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 ADT analysts setting a high price target of 9.2 and a low target of 7.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 8.54. Based on these targets, ADT could surge 21.05% to reach the target high and fall by -7.89% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.37% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.73528 being high and $0.7265 being low. For ADT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.73035. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.17. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.2 and the low estimate is $0.17. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.19.
