Emerson Electric Co (EMR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $131.17, with 4.05 million shares of worth about $531.78 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.52% during that period and on January 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.95%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 570.20M shares, out of which, 567.96M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 8.66% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.21%. Year-to-date (YTD), EMR shares are showing a performance of 5.84% which increased to 36.44% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $91.64 but also hit the highest price of $134.85 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Emerson Electric Co shares is 3.00 million. The stock is currently trading 6.02% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.01% for SMA50 and it goes to 15.21% higher than SMA200.
Emerson Electric Co (NYSE: EMR) currently have 570.20M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 79.25% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $74.71B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.34. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 38.26, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.43 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.83 and has Quick Ratio of 1.40 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for EMR, volatility over the week remained 2.17% while standing at 2.00% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Emerson Electric Co (EMR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.28 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.46 and it is 6.48 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.25 which is 1.31 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 1.22 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 8.09% while it is estimated to increase by 9.35% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 10.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -1.60% 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 Jefferies on December 12, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $160 to it. Coverage by UBS stated Emerson Electric Co (EMR) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on November 13, 2024, suggesting a price target of $135 for the stock. On November 13, 2024, Exane BNP Paribas Initiated their recommendations, while on October 16, 2024, Stephens Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $120. Stock get an Underweight rating from Morgan Stanley on September 06, 2024.
