Patterson Companies is a medical distribution business based in the US. Patterson Companies shares (PDCO.US) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $25.97 – an increase of 0.23% over the previous day. Patterson Companies employs 7,600 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $6.6 billion.
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Over the last 12 months, Patterson Companies's shares have ranged in value from as little as $24.5309 up to $33.5972. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Patterson Companies's is 1.048. This would suggest that Patterson Companies's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Historical closes compared with the last close of $25.97
| 1 week (2024-04-16) | 0.93% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-21) | -4.73% |
| 3 months (2024-01-23) | -12.94% |
| 6 months (2023-10-23) | -15.19% |
| 1 year (2023-04-23) | -4.84% |
| 2 years (2022-04-18) | -22.29% |
| 3 years (2021-04-22) | -22.38% |
| 5 years (2019-04-23) | 19.84% |
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Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Patterson Companies P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
Patterson Companies's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, Patterson Companies stocks trade at around 13x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Patterson Companies's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.0984. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Patterson Companies's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Patterson Companies's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $367 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Patterson Companies's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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