With 0.66 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.84 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Industrial Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $219.1 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $213.95. The 52-week range on GTLS shows that it touched its highest point at $220.03 and its lowest point at $101.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $204.26. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.84.
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 GTLS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 9.66%, but this was up by 11.11% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 72.24% while six-month performance rose 33.91%. The stock gained 67.96% in the past year, while it has gained 14.42% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GTLS yields 3.55 with Next year EPS estimates of 12.37. For the next quarter, that number is 3.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 48.79% for this year and 36.49% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 48.30% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -23.54%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 42.81 million GTLS shares are outstanding with a float of 42.55 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.02 million, which was 1172.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Ms. Jillian C. Evanko as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Joseph Robert Brinkman serves as its VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.26028 of GTLS’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, GTLS reported revenue of $1062500000.0 and operating income of $178500000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $249200000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GTLS since 14 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 12 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 GTLS analysts setting a high price target of 235.0 and a low target of 145.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 206.68182. Based on these targets, GTLS could surge 7.63% to reach the target high and fall by -33.59% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -5.34% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $9.09155 being high and $9.02123 being low. For GTLS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $9.06141.
