Stock That Is Worth Exploring Now: American Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT)

American Tower Corp. (NYSE:AMT) does about 2.17M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2444212 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 104.16B USD. Its current market price is $223.05, marking an increase of 3.78% compared to the previous close of $214.93. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $219.10 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $154.58. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $300 and a low of $205.

American Tower Corp. (AMT) has a 20-day trading average at $206.61 and the current price is 1.80% off the 52-week high compared with 44.29% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $198.76 and its 200-day simple moving average is $194.38. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.41%, which decreases to 2.05% 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 79.75 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $230.39, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 3.19% over the period. The median price target is 12.7% away from the current levels at $255.5.

9 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on July 01, 2024 when Goldman initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $230. Raymond James upgraded the stock to “Strong Buy” from Outperform on May 01, 2024 at a price target of $226-$248. Mizuho initiated its price target at $205.

American Tower Corp. (AMT) stock is up 6.46% over the week and 14.75% over the past month. Its price is 3.32% year-to-date and 18.03% over the past year.

Its 12-month price target is $255.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 3.19 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $205, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $300.

The company has a return on investment of 4.29% and return on equity of 43.68%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 50.48 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 33.27. The beta has a value of 0.80. Price to book ratio is 25.73 and price to sales ratio is 9.29.