With 6.27 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.8 million shares. During the session, the Electronic Components company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $72.97 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $70.58. The 52-week range on APH shows that it touched its highest point at $79.39 and its lowest point at $50.48 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $85.73. With its current market cap of 85.33 billion, APH has annualized dividend of $0.66 while the current yield stands at 0.93%. APH paid its most recent dividend on 1734393600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734393600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.24.
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 APH was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -8.30%, but this was up by 1.84% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.76% while six-month performance rose 10.15%. The stock gained 37.73% in the past year, while it has gained 1.92% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for APH yields 1.92 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.55. For the next quarter, that number is 0.51. This implies an EPS growth rate of 20.83% for this year and 11.57% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 14.46% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 15.41%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 1.21 billion APH shares are outstanding with a float of 1.20 billion shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 13.94 million, which was 115.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Richard Adam Norwitt J.D. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Craig A. Lampo CPA serves as its Senior VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.95462996 of APH’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, APH reported revenue of $4038800000.0 and operating income of $864900000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1077400000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.48.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for APH since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 APH analysts setting a high price target of 102.0 and a low target of 63.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 84.08235. Based on these targets, APH could surge 44.11% to reach the target high and fall by -10.99% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.79% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.85929 being high and $1.81931 being low. For APH, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.8393. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.57 and the low estimate is $0.52. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.55.
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