Mckesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) does about 701.34K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 980206 shares change hands in Tuesday’s trading. The company now has a market cap of 71.72B USD. Its current market price is $545.75, marking an increase of 2.31% compared to the previous close of $533.41. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $544.81 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $364.08.
Mckesson Corporation (MCK) has a 20-day trading average at $530.88 and the current price is 0.17% off the 52-week high compared with 49.90% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $530.84 and its 200-day simple moving average is $473.69. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.99%, which decreases to 1.74% 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 62.03 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $578.66, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 5.69% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on February 26, 2024 when Leerink Partners initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $600. Wells Fargo initiated its price target at $502.
Mckesson Corporation (MCK) stock is up 1.59% over the week and 2.54% over the past month. Its price is 17.88% year-to-date and 49.17% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/31/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 7.19 above consensus estimates by 0.02. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 6.34 and 27.59 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $80.88B, which analysts say will come at $311.92B for the current fiscal year and next year at $340.61B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $79.32B.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 5.69 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 60.04%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 24.74 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 15.51. The beta has a value of 0.46. Price to sales ratio is 0.24.
