With 4.62B Outstanding Shares, Can Haleon plc ADR (NYSE: HLN) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Haleon plc ADR (NYSE:HLN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.19M but it saw 3580675 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 45.12B USD, the company’s current market price of $9.90 came falling about -0.10 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.91. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $10.80 and as low as $7.70. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $9.85 while lowest mark touched by it was $9.91.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Haleon plc ADR (HLN) gives us an average price of $10.22, while its current price level is -8.33% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 28.65% 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 $10.22 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $8.93. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 0.84% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.22%. 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 36.80 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, HLN’s stock price is moving -2.27% down while it is -7.13% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 20.29% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 19.71%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.08 beaten by the consensus estimate of 0.13 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Aug-01, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.11 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.38. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $11.13B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $14.73B and seeing the company making $15.23B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.71B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Haleon plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 4.62B with 4.37% of that held by the insiders while 11.57% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.52% and return on equity (ROE) at 6.55%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 33.28 while having a 19.68 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.27. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.15 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.18. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.20% on average.