Is Eaton Corporation plc (NYSE: ETN) Proving The Doubters Wrong?

Eaton Corporation plc (ETN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $380.72, with 3.69 million shares of worth about $1.4 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.93% during that period and on July 17, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 4.91%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 391.30M shares, out of which, 390.41M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 6.45% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 12.64%. Year-to-date (YTD), ETN shares are showing a performance of 16.42% which increased to 14.72% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $231.85 but also hit the highest price of $379.99 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Eaton Corporation plc shares is 2.28 million. The stock is currently trading 7.58% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 13.43% for SMA50 and it goes to 16.73% higher than SMA200.

Eaton Corporation plc (NYSE: ETN) currently have 391.30M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.46% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $148.98B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.16. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 38.43, while it has posted earnings per share of $9.91 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.25 and has Quick Ratio of 0.84 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.58. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ETN, volatility over the week remained 1.94% while standing at 2.14% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Eaton Corporation plc (ETN) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 2.92 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 3.1 and it is 13.59 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 2.9 which is 3.02 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 2.73 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.38% while it is estimated to increase by 13.00% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 11.81% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.57% 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 BNP Paribas Exane on May 15, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $380 to it. Coverage by KeyBanc Capital Markets stated Eaton Corporation plc (ETN) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on March 12, 2025, suggesting a price target of $340 for the stock. On January 28, 2025, Melius Downgrade their recommendations, while on November 13, 2024, UBS Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $431. Stock get an In-line rating from Evercore ISI on November 13, 2024.

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