Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $272.16, with 3.67 million shares of worth about $998.66 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -14.49% during that period and on May 01, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.39%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 222.48M shares, out of which, 220.66M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.23% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.26%. Year-to-date (YTD), APD shares are showing a performance of -6.16% which increased to 14.30% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $233.52 but also hit the highest price of $341.14 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Air Products & Chemicals Inc shares is 1.39 million. The stock is currently trading 2.22% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.32% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.47% lower than SMA200.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE: APD) currently have 222.48M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 90.86% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $60.55B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.89. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 15.81, while it has posted earnings per share of $17.22 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.31 and has Quick Ratio of 0.96 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 APD, volatility over the week remained 3.38% while standing at 4.12% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 2.94 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 3.49 and it is 13.52 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 2.9 which is 2.95 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 3.2 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 0.27% while it is estimated to increase by 9.30% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 6.85% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 16.77% 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 April 15, 2025 offering an Underperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $282 to it. Coverage by JP Morgan stated Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on February 07, 2025, suggesting a price target of $320 for the stock. On February 07, 2025, BMO Capital Markets Downgrade their recommendations, while on January 31, 2025, Bernstein Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $375. Stock get a Neutral rating from BofA Securities on January 27, 2025.
