Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Paccar Inc (PCAR)?

Paccar Inc (NASDAQ:PCAR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.61M but it saw 1981641 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 52.25B USD, the company’s current market price of $99.53 came rising about 0.29 while comparing to the previous closing price of $99.24. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $122.00 and as low as $87.53. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $98.92 while lowest mark touched by it was $100.29.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Paccar Inc (PCAR) gives us an average price of $102.41, while its current price level is -18.42% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 13.71% 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 $105.75 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $104.46. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.39% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.79%. 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 42.49 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

UBS downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on March 18, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $124-$108. BofA Securities also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $116 and $121.50.

Over the week, PCAR’s stock price is moving -0.06% down while it is -6.61% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -4.32% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -17.26%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-27, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.6 while estimate for next year EPS is 7.31. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $7.67B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $31.64B and seeing the company making $35.12B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $7.13B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Paccar Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 524.40M with 1.89% of that held by the insiders while 73.00% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 15.23% and return on equity (ROE) at 24.93%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 12.59 while having a 11.54 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.95. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.98 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.55. Its return on asset (ROA) is 9.88% on average.