With 0.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.27 million shares. During the session, the Aerospace & Defense company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $369.42 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $364.67. The 52-week range on CW shows that it touched its highest point at $393.40 and its lowest point at $217.57 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $409.57. With its current market cap of 13.92 billion, CW has annualized dividend of $0.83 while the current yield stands at 0.23%. CW paid its most recent dividend on 1732233600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732233600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.19.
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 CW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.78%, but this was down by -4.70% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.77% while six-month performance rose 30.72%. The stock gained 66.46% in the past year, while it has gained 3.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CW yields 10.58 with Next year EPS estimates of 11.79. For the next quarter, that number is 3.09. This implies an EPS growth rate of 14.35% for this year and 9.92% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.88% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.14%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 37.96 million CW shares are outstanding with a float of 37.76 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 0.34 million, which was 89.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Ms. Lynn M. Bamford as the firm’s CEO & Chairman, Mr. K. Christopher Farkas CPA serves as its VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.84392 of CW’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, CW reported revenue of $798918000.0 and operating income of $148183000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $185002000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.89.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CW since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 CW analysts setting a high price target of 452.0 and a low target of 304.55, the average target price over the next 12 months is 392.9357. Based on these targets, CW could surge 23.19% to reach the target high and fall by -17.0% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.09% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $10.75606 being high and $10.67601 being low. For CW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $10.72604. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.53 and the low estimate is $2.34. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.46.
