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The Brink's Company is a security & protection services business based in the US. The Brinks Company shares (BCO) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. The Brinks Company employs 64,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3.6 billion.
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Latest market close | USD$72 |
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52-week range | USD$32.7923 - USD$95.8553 |
50-day moving average | USD$66.005 |
200-day moving average | USD$50.016 |
Wall St. target price | USD$81.67 |
PE ratio | 133.0606 |
Dividend yield | USD$0.6 (0.84%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$0.332 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $72 from 2020-12-31
1 week (2021-01-11) | 3.64% |
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1 month (2020-12-18) | 1.19% |
3 months (2020-10-16) | 60.00% |
6 months (2020-07-17) | 79.24% |
1 year (2020-01-17) | -22.09% |
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2 years (2019-01-18) | -0.54% |
3 years (2018-01-18) | 85.05 |
5 years (2016-01-15) | 166.96% |
Valuing The Brinks Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of The Brinks Company's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
The Brinks Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 133x. In other words, The Brinks Company shares trade at around 133x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
The Brinks Company's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.83. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into The Brinks Company's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
The Brinks Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$356.6 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a The Brinks Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | USD$3.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 4.44% |
Gross profit TTM | USD$851.1 million |
Return on assets TTM | 2.32% |
Return on equity TTM | -3.81% |
Profit margin | -0.33% |
Book value | $1.822 |
Market capitalisation | USD$3.5 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 4.2 million The Brinks Company shares held short by investors – that's known as The Brinks Company's "short interest". This figure is 1.4% down from 4.2 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting The Brinks Company shares can be evaluated.
The Brinks Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of The Brinks Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of The Brinks Company shares traded daily (recently around 628212.44377811). The Brinks Company's SIR currently stands at 6.67. In other words for every 100,000 The Brinks Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6670 shares are currently held short.
However The Brinks Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of The Brinks Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable The Brinks Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case The Brinks Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.08% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 The Brinks Company shares in existence, roughly 80 shares are currently held short) or 0.0976% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable The Brinks Company shares, roughly 98 shares are currently held short).
A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against The Brinks Company.
Find out more about how you can short The Brinks Company stock.
We're not expecting The Brinks Company to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, The Brinks Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $32.7923 up to $95.8553. 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 (NYSE average) beta is 1, while The Brinks Company's is 1.548. This would suggest that The Brinks Company's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
The Brink's Company provides secure transportation, cash management, and other security-related services in North America, South America, and internationally. The company offers armored vehicle transportation of valuables; automated teller machine (ATM) services, such as cash replenishment, replenishment forecasting, cash optimization, ATM remote monitoring, service call dispatching, transaction processing, installation, and first and second line maintenance services; and network infrastructure services. It also provides transportation services for diamonds, jewelry, precious metals, securities, currency, high-tech devices, electronics, and pharmaceuticals; and vault outsourcing, money processing, deploying and servicing intelligent safes and safe control devices, and check imaging, as well as cashier balancing, counterfeit detection, account consolidation, and electronic reporting services. In addition, the company offers technology applications, including online cash tracking, cash inventory management, and other Web-based tools. Further, it provides bill payment acceptance and processing, and prepaid cards and corporate debit cards; and security system design and installation services that include alarms, motion detectors, closed-circuit televisions, and digital video recorders, as well as access control systems comprising card and biometric readers, electronic locks, and turnstiles. Additionally, the company offers monitoring services after systems have been installed; and security and guarding services to protect airports, offices, warehouses, stores, and public venues. It serves banks and financial institutions, retailers, government agencies, mints, jewelers, and other commercial operations. The company was formerly known as The Pittston Company and changed its name to The Brink's Company in May 2003. The Brink's Company was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
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