Graco Inc. (NYSE:GGG) does about 699.95K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1157406 shares change hands in Tuesday’s trading. The company now has a market cap of 14.13B USD. Its current market price is $83.52, marking an increase of 0.81% compared to the previous close of $82.85. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $94.77 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $69.78.
Graco Inc. (GGG) has a 20-day trading average at $86.02 and the current price is -11.87% off the 52-week high compared with 19.69% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $89.90 and its 200-day simple moving average is $82.48. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.22%, which increases to 1.54% 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 38.04 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $90.53, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 7.74% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 05, 2023 when Exane BNP Paribas initiated the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $73. Seaport Research Partners upgraded its price target at $82.
Graco Inc. (GGG) stock is up 4.14% over the week and -9.59% over the past month. Its price is -3.73% year-to-date and 6.21% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 3/31/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.75 below consensus estimates by -0.05. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.77 and 3.07 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $558.95M, which analysts say will come at $2.21B for the current fiscal year and next year at $2.32B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $567.56M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 7.74 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 21.30% and return on equity of 23.12%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 28.83 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 25.42. The beta has a value of 0.83. Price to book ratio is 6.05 and price to sales ratio is 6.55.
