Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) At $287.47 Offering A Unique Opportunity

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE:APD) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.78M but it saw 3842316 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 63.91B USD, the company’s current market price of $287.47 came rising about 8.95 while comparing to the previous closing price of $263.85. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $307.71 and as low as $212.24.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) gives us an average price of $261.51, while its current price level is -6.58% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 35.45% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $265.47 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $256.94. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.38% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.12%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 68.69 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, APD’s stock price is moving 11.15% up while it is 14.53% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.99% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -4.94%.

Currently, Air Products & Chemicals Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 222.20M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.77% and return on equity (ROE) at 17.00%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 26.01 while having a 21.49 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.82. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.28 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.26. Its return on asset (ROA) is 7.54% on average.