RTX Corp (NYSE:RTX) does about 8.35M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 9652601 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 135.09B USD. Its current market price is $101.60, marking a decrease of -0.27% compared to the previous close of $101.88. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $104.91 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $68.56.
RTX Corp (RTX) has a 20-day trading average at $96.16 and the current price is -3.16% off the 52-week high compared with 48.20% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $92.93 and its 200-day simple moving average is $85.84. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.43%, which decreases to 1.40% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 79.69 to suggest the stock is overbought.
The consensus objective for the share price is $98.73, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -2.91% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 14, 2024 when Wells Fargo upgraded the stock to “Overweight” and issued a price target of between $100 and $120. BofA Securities also upgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Underperform on January 25, 2024 at a price target of $78-$100. Robert W. Baird downgraded its price target at $88-$94.
RTX Corp (RTX) stock is up 3.09% over the week and 11.80% over the past month. Its price is 20.75% year-to-date and 3.45% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $1.29 above consensus estimates by $0.05. RTX’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 6.50% this year and 13.40% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $19.28 billion, which analysts say will come at $78.72 billion for the current fiscal year and next year at $83.56 billion. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $18.38 billion.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -2.91 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 1.33B with insiders holding 0.09% of the shares and institutional holders owning 87.12% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 3.09% and return on equity of 4.83%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 45.39 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 16.52. The beta has a value of 0.93. Price to book ratio is 2.25 and price to sales ratio is 1.96.
