Agilent Technologies Inc (A) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $127.08, with 3.44 million shares of worth about $437.51 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -9.55% during that period and on February 27, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -5.50%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 285.23M shares, out of which, 283.99M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -7.10% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -15.47%. Year-to-date (YTD), A shares are showing a performance of -5.40% which decreased to -3.35% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $124.16 but also hit the highest price of $155.35 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Agilent Technologies Inc shares is 1.63 million. The stock is currently trading -9.54% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -9.60% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.18% lower than SMA200.
Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A) currently have 285.23M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 89.72% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $36.25B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.10. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 29.19, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.35 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.53 and has Quick Ratio of 1.66 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 A, volatility over the week remained 2.43% while standing at 2.25% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.34% while it is estimated to increase by 9.58% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 8.28% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 5.63% 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 Barclays on February 10, 2025 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $135 and $145 to it. Coverage by Wells Fargo stated Agilent Technologies Inc (A) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on August 28, 2024, suggesting a price target of $157 for the stock. Stock get a Hold rating from Jefferies on June 03, 2024.
