Baker Hughes Co (BKR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $36.68, with 4.84 million shares of worth about $177.54 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -18.27% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -1.48%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 990.36M shares, out of which, 988.48M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.77% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.30%. Year-to-date (YTD), BKR shares are showing a performance of -10.58% which increased to 15.31% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $30.93 but also hit the highest price of $49.40 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Baker Hughes Co shares is 8.58 million. The stock is currently trading -0.76% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -5.50% for SMA50 and it goes to -8.43% lower than SMA200.
Baker Hughes Co (NASDAQ: BKR) currently have 990.36M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 97.45% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $36.34B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.90. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.53, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.93 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.53 and has Quick Ratio of 0.93 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.35. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BKR, volatility over the week remained 1.18% while standing at 1.41% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Baker Hughes Co (BKR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.56 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.62 and it is 2.73 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.51 which is 0.59 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 0.57 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.22% while it is estimated to increase by 14.15% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.20% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 66.90% 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 TD Cowen on April 24, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $50 and $49 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Baker Hughes Co (BKR) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on December 19, 2024, suggesting a price target of $53 for the stock. On October 25, 2024, Argus Upgrade their recommendations, while on September 25, 2024, Wells Fargo Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $42. Stock get a Buy rating from TD Cowen on July 29, 2024.
