The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Haleon plc ADR (NYSE: HLN)

Haleon plc ADR (NYSE:HLN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 11.39M but it saw 12489136 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 45.87B USD, the company’s current market price of $10.16 came rising about 0.40 while comparing to the previous closing price of $10.12. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $10.80 and as low as $8.04. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $10.121 while lowest mark touched by it was $10.2799.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Haleon plc ADR (HLN) gives us an average price of $10.03, while its current price level is -5.93% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 26.37% 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 $10.07 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $9.77. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.10% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.10%. 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 53.45 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, HLN’s stock price is moving 5.28% up while it is -1.26% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 6.50% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 26.05%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-26, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.41. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.79B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $11.42B and seeing the company making $11.95B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.86B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Haleon plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 4.51B with 0.02% of that held by the insiders while 12.05% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.93% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.90%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 25.30 while having a 18.88 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.25. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.27 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.20. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.27% on average.