Paccar Inc (PCAR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $103.11, with 4.47 million shares of worth about $461.32 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 15.08% during that period and on February 12, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -2.81%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 524.40M shares, out of which, 514.52M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -3.63% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.67%. Year-to-date (YTD), PCAR shares are showing a performance of -0.87% which increased to 0.06% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $87.53 but also hit the highest price of $122.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Paccar Inc shares is 2.20 million. The stock is currently trading -5.16% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.07% for SMA50 and it goes to 0.48% higher than SMA200.
Paccar Inc (NASDAQ: PCAR) currently have 524.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 68.51% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $54.06B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.91. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.04, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.90 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.39 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PCAR, volatility over the week remained 1.64% while standing at 1.96% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Paccar Inc (PCAR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.64 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.82 and it is 9.08 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.58 which is 1.72 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 2.27 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -4.92% while it is estimated to increase by 20.91% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -0.62% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 11.51% 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 BofA Securities on January 14, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $116 and $121.50 to it. Coverage by Jefferies stated Paccar Inc (PCAR) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on December 06, 2024, suggesting a price target of $120 for the stock. Stock get a Neutral rating from Citigroup on June 26, 2024.
