Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN) at last check was buoying at $66.67 on Thursday, March 21, with a rise of 1.42% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $65.73 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 0.17. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 34.93. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that AZN hit a high price of $76.56 and saw its price falling to a low level of $60.47 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 2.42% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $206.69 billion. AZN Stock’s Forward Dividend of 1.45 and its yield of 2.18% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter. Analysts are in estimates of $1.25 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to $4.56 for 2024 with estimates of that growing to $5.14 in next year. These estimates are suggesting current year growth of 25.60% for EPS and 12.70% growth next year.
Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of $11.98 billion. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as $11.65 billion which could climb up to $12.44 billion to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 13.50% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of $50.79 billion in 2024, which will be 10.90% more from revenue generated by the company last year.
In last 7 days, analysts came adjusting their opinions about stock’s EPS with no upward and no downward revisions, an indication which could give clearer idea about the company’s short term price movement. In contrast, when we review AZN stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 50% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of Hold. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of Hold for it.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the AZN stock which is currently positioned at 2.73. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 1.21% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 1.16% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 55.20 while volatility remained at 1.31% over the past week which changes to 1.26% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 0.51, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.98.
Having a second look at Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 6.21 million. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 3.10 billion.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 0.03% while it is 15.97% for the institutional holders. Subtraction of -1.02% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in today’s trading is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
