Amphenol Corp. (APH) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $109.24, with 4.63 million shares of worth about $506.18 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 24.26% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 0.82%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 598.90M shares, out of which, 596.11M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 41 times over the past 12 months. They bought 1,893,125 shares in 25 of the transactions. In 16 selling transactions, insiders dumped 1,793,495 shares.
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Stock saw a price change of 2.62% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.29%. Year-to-date (YTD), APH shares are showing a performance of 10.20% which increased to 40.92% 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 $109.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Amphenol Corp. shares is 2.67 million. The stock is currently trading 4.11% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 8.42% for SMA50 and it goes to 23.44% higher than SMA200.
Amphenol Corp. (NYSE: APH) currently have 598.90M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 99.10% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $65.53B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.31. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 35.17, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.11 in the same period. Its PEG reads 8.79 and has Quick Ratio of 1.48 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.56. 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 0.98% while standing at 1.14% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Amphenol Corp. (APH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.73 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.79 and it is $3.67 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.72 which is $0.77 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 $0.69 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.68% while it is estimated to increase by 11.97% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 4.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 10.05% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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 Citigroup on January 05, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $117 to it. Coverage by Exane BNP Paribas stated Amphenol Corp. (APH) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on October 05, 2023, suggesting a price target of $93 for the stock. On May 19, 2023, Credit Suisse Downgrade their recommendations, while on December 13, 2022, Credit Suisse Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $93. Stock get a Hold rating from Jefferies on November 22, 2022.
