Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc (NYSE:ATMU) does about 829.68K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 712987 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.63B USD. Its current market price is $43.72, marking a decrease of -0.79% compared to the previous close of $44.07. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $45.43 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $21.09. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $45 and a low of $34.
Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc (ATMU) has a 20-day trading average at $42.13 and the current price is -3.76% off the 52-week high compared with 107.30% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $39.85 and its 200-day simple moving average is $32.34. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.33%, which increases to 2.79% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 63.45 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $48.57, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 9.99% over the period. The median price target is -4.1% away from the current levels at $42.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on November 11, 2024 when Wells Fargo downgraded the stock to “Equal Weight” and issued a price target of between $42 and $45. Wells Fargo initiated its price target at $24.
The current price level is 3.79%, 9.72%, and 35.17% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the ATMU price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc (ATMU) stock is up 1.63% over the week and 9.63% over the past month. Its price is 86.12% year-to-date and 102.97% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.49 above consensus estimates by 0.05. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.53 and 2.45 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $430.86M, which analysts say will come at $1.66B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.72B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $399.1M.
Its 12-month price target is $42. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 9.99 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $34, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $45.
Outstanding shares total 83.30M with insiders holding 0.56% of the shares and institutional holders owning 102.34% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 21.80% and return on equity of 141.08%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 20.26 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 17.22. The beta has a value of 1.74. Price to book ratio is 16.42 and price to sales ratio is 2.19.
