Diageo plc ADR (DEO): Investing In A Time Of Crisis

Diageo plc ADR (NYSE:DEO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.20M but it saw 1840251 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 59.47B USD, the company’s current market price of $107.04 came falling about -0.49 while comparing to the previous closing price of $107.57. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $144.27 and as low as $100.72. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $104.89 while lowest mark touched by it was $107.86.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Diageo plc ADR (DEO) gives us an average price of $106.03, while its current price level is -25.81% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 6.27% 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 $108.94 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $122.97. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.77% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.00%. 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 50.08 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, DEO’s stock price is moving -0.90% down while it is -1.27% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -15.80% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -25.62%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2001-Aug-14, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 6.46.

Currently, Diageo plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 555.55M with 0.06% of that held by the insiders while 10.52% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 12.19% and return on equity (ROE) at 35.83%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 16.58 while having a 15.68 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.60. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 5.78 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.94. Its return on asset (ROA) is 7.68% on average.