Currently, there are 939.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 935.47M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.54% and -11.73% over the past three months. HPQ shares are trading 0.12% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 8.90% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $27.42 and touched a high of $39.79 over the same period. HPQ has an average intraday trading volume of 7.04 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -1.63%, -7.34%, and -4.62% respectively.
Institutional ownership of HP Inc (NYSE: HPQ) shares accounts for 84.28% of the company’s 939.00M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $30.64B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.07. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 11.61, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.81. The company has a PEG of 4.47 and a Quick Ratio of 0.45. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.13% over the week and 2.19% over the month.
Analysts forecast that HP Inc (HPQ) will achieve an EPS of 0.74 for the current quarter, 0.85 for the next quarter and 3.75 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.73 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.73. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.81 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.42%, and 6.05% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 2.60% over the next five years, compared to 6.29% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the HPQ, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. HSBC Securities stated their Hold rating for the stock in a research note on November 29, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $39-$38. TD Cowen coverage for the HP Inc (HPQ) stock in a research note released on November 27, 2024 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $39. Citigroup was of a view on October 01, 2024 that the stock is Neutral, while BofA Securities gave the stock Neutral rating on September 27, 2024, issuing a price target of $37. JP Morgan on their part issued Overweight rating on August 23, 2024.
