With 2.38 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.97 million shares. During the session, the Advertising Agencies company that operates in wider Communication Services sector, reached to the highest price of $86.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $84.04. The 52-week range on OMC shows that it touched its highest point at $107.00 and its lowest point at $84.43 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $114.20. With its current market cap of 16.62 billion, OMC has annualized dividend of $2.80 while the current yield stands at 3.31%. OMC paid its most recent dividend on 1734652800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734652800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.99.
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 OMC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.39%, but this was down by -17.95% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.09% while six-month performance fell -6.50%. The stock lost -1.46% in the past year, while it has lost -1.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for OMC yields 7.33 with Next year EPS estimates of 8.70. For the next quarter, that number is 2.41. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.70% for this year and 8.03% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.22% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.46%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 195.09 million OMC shares are outstanding with a float of 194.16 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 12.57 million, which was 640.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. John D. Wren as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Daryl D. Simm serves as its President & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99736 of OMC’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, OMC reported revenue of $3882600000.0 and operating income of $600100000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $687500000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.95.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for OMC since 20 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 15 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 OMC analysts setting a high price target of 130.0 and a low target of 89.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 115.65545. Based on these targets, OMC could surge 53.61% to reach the target high and rise by 5.16% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 36.66% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $8.17608 being high and $7.77032 being low. For OMC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $8.05435.