Investors Are Waking Up To Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ: AZN) After Rising 9.75% Over The Past 12 Months

Astrazeneca plc ADR (NASDAQ:AZN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.43M but it saw 6033641 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 225.52B USD, the company’s current market price of $72.72 came falling about -0.45 while comparing to the previous closing price of $73.05. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $87.68 and as low as $62.75. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $71.82 while lowest mark touched by it was $73.105.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Astrazeneca plc ADR (AZN) gives us an average price of $76.01, while its current price level is -17.06% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 15.89% 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 $73.11 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $74.77. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.74% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases 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 39.24 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, AZN’s stock price is moving -4.72% down while it is -3.55% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 10.99% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 9.75%.

Currently, Astrazeneca plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 3.10B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 10.28% and return on equity (ROE) at 17.60%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 32.27 while having a 14.41 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.50. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 5.53 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.17. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.86% on average.