Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Stryker Corp. (SYK)?

Stryker Corp. (NYSE:SYK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.34M but it saw 1006850 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 124.23B USD, the company’s current market price of $325.99 came rising about 2.00 while comparing to the previous closing price of $319.60. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $361.41 and as low as $249.98. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $320.98 while lowest mark touched by it was $327.3.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Stryker Corp. (SYK) gives us an average price of $331.59, while its current price level is -9.80% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 30.41% 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 $337.44 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $324.38. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.99% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.70%. 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 45.24 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Goldman which initiated the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on May 30, 2024, recommending a price target of $372 for it. Needham upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on May 22, 2024 while assigning a price target of $392. Canaccord Genuity issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $315 and $360.

Over the week, SYK’s stock price is moving -2.16% down while it is -3.36% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 8.86% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 15.46%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 2.46 beat the consensus estimate of 2.43 for the same. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $6.35B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $22.38B and seeing the company making $24.17B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $5.37B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Stryker Corp.’s total number of outstanding shares is 380.10M with 5.38% of that held by the insiders while 78.50% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 11.39% and return on equity (ROE) at 18.58%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 36.36 while having a 24.18 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.90. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 6.29 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.81. Its return on asset (ROA) is 9.01% on average.