Alcon Inc (NYSE:ALC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.59M but it saw 2354502 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 42.99B USD, the company’s current market price of $86.92 came rising about 1.13 while comparing to the previous closing price of $85.95. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $101.10 and as low as $80.48. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $85.52 while lowest mark touched by it was $87.63.
Needham issued its recommendations for the stock as it reiterated the price target for the stock in the range of between $107 and $110.
Over the week, ALC’s stock price is moving -0.07% down while it is 0.84% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -5.25% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 2.39%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-13, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.76 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.21. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.64B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $10.47B and seeing the company making $11.28B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.65B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Alcon Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 495.70M with 0.13% of that held by the insiders while 68.26% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.14% and return on equity (ROE) at 5.23%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 38.63 while having a 23.91 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.95. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.96 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.33. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.70% on average.
