Amphenol Corp. (APH) concluded trading on 12/06/23 at a closing price of $92.23, with 3.41 million shares of worth about $314.56 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 17.10% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 1.00%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 594.80M shares, out of which, 594.74M shares are available for trading.
A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 16 analysts are covering the APH stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $94.08. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $103.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $75.00. The stock’s current price level is 1.97% above of average price target set by the analysts, while a rise to estimated low would result in loss of -22.97% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $103.00 would mean a gain of 10.46% for the stock.
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According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 50 times over the past 12 months. They bought 2,698,693 shares in 30 of the transactions. In 20 selling transactions, insiders dumped 2,598,295 shares.
Amphenol Corp. (NYSE: APH) started trading at $92.00, above $0.68 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 92.71, or with a gain of 1.00%. Stock saw a price change of 2.27% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 9.34%. Year-to-date (YTD), APH shares are showing a performance of 21.13% which increased to 16.04% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $72.00 but also hit the highest price of $92.53 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Amphenol Corp. shares is 2.61 million. The stock is currently trading 3.57% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 8.62% for SMA50 and it goes to 12.39% higher than SMA200.
Amphenol Corp. (NYSE: APH) currently have 594.80M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 96.37% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $55.18B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.29. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 29.76, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.10 in the same period. Its PEG reads 7.44 and has Quick Ratio of 1.61 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for APH, volatility over the week remained 1.12% while standing at 1.09% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Amphenol Corp. (APH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.76 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.72 and it is $3.23 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.75 which is $0.78 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.78 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -1.58% while it is estimated to increase by 8.93% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 4.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 24.36% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Analysts at 16 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Amphenol Corp. (APH)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Strong Buy” and assign it a score of 1.94. Out of those 16 Wall Street analysts, 8 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 7 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Exane BNP Paribas on October 05, 2023 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $93 to it.
