Assessing Whether Paccar Inc (NASDAQ: PCAR) Is Over- Or Undervalued

Paccar Inc (PCAR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $98.42, with 6.07 million shares of worth about $597.82 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 7.06% during that period and on March 13, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -3.82%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 524.40M shares, out of which, 515.29M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -7.92% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.23%. Year-to-date (YTD), PCAR shares are showing a performance of -5.38% which decreased to -11.21% 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 2.49 million. The stock is currently trading -6.71% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.03% for SMA50 and it goes to -4.19% lower than SMA200.

Paccar Inc (NASDAQ: PCAR) currently have 524.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 70.39% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $51.65B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.93. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.45, while it has posted earnings per share of $7.90 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.93 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.91. 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 4.32% while standing at 2.91% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -5.54% while it is estimated to increase by 19.46% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -0.47% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 11.52% 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.

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