Investors Are Waking Up To Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ: AZN) After Rising 17.61% Over The Past 12 Months

Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.52M but it saw 2990918 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 241.63B USD, the company’s current market price of $77.93 came falling about -2.07 while comparing to the previous closing price of $79.58. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $87.68 and as low as $60.47. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $77.86 while lowest mark touched by it was $79.09.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Astrazeneca plc ADR (AZN) gives us an average price of $78.89, while its current price level is -11.11% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 28.87% 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 $81.45 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $73.90. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.09% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.40%. 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 40.53 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, AZN’s stock price is moving -0.32% down while it is -9.12% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 15.71% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 17.61%.

Currently, Astrazeneca plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 3.10B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 9.51% and return on equity (ROE) at 16.75%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 37.76 while having a 16.40 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.47. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 6.12 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.92. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.41% on average.