Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD): Uncovering A True Diamond In The Rough

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE:APD) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.45M but it saw 1798480 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 66.57B USD, the company’s current market price of $299.46 came rising about 1.26 while comparing to the previous closing price of $295.72. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $297.53 and as low as $212.24. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $296.025 while lowest mark touched by it was $300.42.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD) gives us an average price of $283.24, while its current price level is 0.65% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 41.09% 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 $276.35 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $258.14. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.38% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.74%. 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 73.89 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Over the week, APD’s stock price is moving 4.08% up while it is 7.75% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 9.37% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 4.45%.

Currently, Air Products & Chemicals Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 222.20M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.96% and return on equity (ROE) at 17.53%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 26.02 while having a 22.36 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.83. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.41 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.50. Its return on asset (ROA) is 7.55% on average.