Growth Story Still Intact For Agilent Technologies Inc (A)

Agilent Technologies Inc (A) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $113.28, with 3.84 million shares of worth about $434.7 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -15.36% during that period and on May 29, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.16%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 285.10M shares, out of which, 283.95M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 4.01% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.42%. Year-to-date (YTD), A shares are showing a performance of -15.68% which decreased to -24.81% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $96.43 but also hit the highest price of $153.84 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Agilent Technologies Inc shares is 2.25 million. The stock is currently trading 2.52% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.98% for SMA50 and it goes to -13.45% lower than SMA200.

Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A) currently have 285.10M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 90.37% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $32.30B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.23. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 27.97, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.05 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.47 and has Quick Ratio of 1.60 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.57. 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 1.77% while standing at 2.56% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.39% while it is estimated to increase by 8.69% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 8.06% 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.

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