How Worried Should Investors Be About Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp (NYSE: BAH)’

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp (NYSE:BAH) does about 557.10K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 796761 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 19.11B USD. Its current market price is $147.25, marking an increase of 0.37% compared to the previous close of $146.70. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $150.59 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $89.80.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp (BAH) has a 20-day trading average at $144.42 and the current price is -2.22% off the 52-week high compared with 63.98% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $146.08 and its 200-day simple moving average is $129.76. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.57%, which increases to 1.80% 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 56.74 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $154.22, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 4.52% over the period.

Wells Fargo also downgraded the stock to “Equal Weight” from Overweight on November 28, 2023 at a price target of $142-$138. BofA Securities upgraded its price target at $110-$130.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp (BAH) stock is up 1.46% over the week and 0.61% over the past month. Its price is 15.12% year-to-date and 57.57% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 4.52 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 8.78% and return on equity of 35.42%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 47.51 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 24.97. The beta has a value of 0.57. Price to book ratio is 17.61 and price to sales ratio is 1.85.