BlackRock Fund Advisors has recently announced that it has increased stake in Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) by 4.06%. After grabbing 29.94 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 1.17 million shares of the Healthcare Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 5.90% having worth around $1.08 billion. Moreover, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. increased its share by 1.79 million to have a control over 16.24 million shares. And JPMorgan Investment Management, I raised its holdings to 5.34 million shares by acquiring 11.25 million shares or 2.22% of the stake.
Baxter International Inc. (BAX) concluded trading on 12/28/23 at a closing price of $38.80, with 2.35 million shares of worth about $91.12 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -13.20% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 0.36%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 504.43M shares, out of which, 503.51M shares are available for trading.
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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 BAX stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $42.08. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $53.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $35.00. The stock’s current price level is 7.79% above of average price target set by the analysts, while a rise to estimated low would result in loss of -10.86% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $53.00 would mean a gain of 26.79% for the stock.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 64 times over the past 12 months. They bought 533,460 shares in 38 of the transactions. In 26 selling transactions, insiders dumped 93,459 shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, Vanguard 500 Index Fund, and Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Baxter International Inc. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF is currently holding 15.9 million shares of worth totaling $573.65 million. The company recently came buying 19670.0 shares which brought its stake up to 3.13% of the company’s outstanding shares. Vanguard 500 Index Fund bought 53632.0 shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares expand to 2.41%, leaving 12.22 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $441.05 million. Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund, after buying 11.5 million shares, have now control over 2.27% of the stake in the company. It holds 28014.0 shares of worth $414.89 million.
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) started trading at $38.64, below -$0.02 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 38.97, or with a gain of 0.36%. Stock saw a price change of 0.52% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.77%. Year-to-date (YTD), BAX shares are showing a performance of -23.88% which decreased to -23.68% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $31.01 but also hit the highest price of $53.12 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Baxter International Inc. shares is 5.13 million. The stock is currently trading 3.62% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 9.95% for SMA50 and it goes to -4.01% lower than SMA200.
BlackRock Fund Advisors acquired 29.94 million shares of Baxter International Inc. having value of about $1.08 billion. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by BlackRock Fund Advisors revealed that the firm now holds 1.17 million shares in the company valued at close to $45295042.4, or have control over 4.06% stake in the company. Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) currently have 504.43M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 89.27% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 51.05% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 6.65% and 38.90% of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $19.68B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.64. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.59 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.48 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.09. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BAX, volatility over the week remained 1.93% while standing at 1.92% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Baxter International Inc. (BAX) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.86 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.63 and it is $2.98 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.85 which is $0.88 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 $0.88 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -26.10% while it is estimated to increase by 15.80% in next year.
Analysts at 16 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Baxter International Inc. (BAX)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Moderate Buy” and assign it a score of 2.44. Out of those 16 Wall Street analysts, 4 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 11 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 Morgan Stanley on May 30, 2023 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $45 to it.
