Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN) price is hovering higher on Monday, April 15, jumping 0.30% above its previous close.
A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $68.93. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 36.22. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $76.56 and 52-week low of $60.47. The stock added 3.12% on its value in the past month.
Astrazeneca plc ADR, which has a market valuation of $214.35 billion. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.45, while the dividend yield is 2.10%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results. Analysts tracking AZN have forecast the quarterly EPS to grow by 1.21 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit $4.56 for the year 2024 and up to $5.13 for 2025. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of 25.60% for the year and 12.50% for the next year.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $12.02 billion, with the likely lows of $11.78 billion and highs of $12.44 billion. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely rise by 13.90% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $50.8 billion for the company’s annual revenue in 2024. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 10.90% above that which the company brought in 2024.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with 1 upward and — downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give AZN a short term outlook of 100% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 50% Buy.
If we dive deeper into the stock’s performance we see the positive picture represented by the PEG ratio, currently standing at 2.74. The overview shows that AZN’s price is at present 2.97% off the SMA20 and 4.92% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 63.60, with weekly volatility standing at 1.24%. The indicator jumps to 1.31% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN)’s beta value is holding at 0.52, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 1.03.
An analysis of the Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 6.37 million.
Current records show that the company has 3.10B in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 0.03% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 15.97%. But the 2.65% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
