Growing Through Challenges? – Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK)

Currently, there are 154.37M common shares owned by the public and among those 154.01M shares have been available to trade.

The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -26.64% and -32.41% over the past three months. SWK shares are trading -30.43% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -41.45% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $57.77 and touched a high of $110.88 over the same period. SWK has an average intraday trading volume of 2.07 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 -26.23%, -32.07%, and -38.02% respectively.

Institutional ownership of Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE: SWK) shares accounts for 91.71% of the company’s 154.37M shares outstanding.

It has a market capitalization of $8.63B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.24. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 29.59, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.89. The company has a PEG of 1.54 and a Quick Ratio of 0.37 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.76. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 9.03% over the week and 4.16% over the month.

Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 16.35%, and 24.27% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 19.19% over the next five years, compared to -20.90% over the past 5-year period.

Looking at the support for the SWK, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Jefferies stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on February 19, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $103. Mizuho coverage for the Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) stock in a research note released on December 19, 2024 offered a Outperform rating with a price target of $110. Morgan Stanley was of a view on September 06, 2024 that the stock is Equal-Weight, while Barclays gave the stock Equal Weight rating on June 04, 2024, issuing a price target of $100- $86. JP Morgan on their part issued Underweight rating on December 14, 2023.

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