West Pharmaceutical Services is a medical instruments & supplies business based in the US. West Pharmaceutical Services shares (WST.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $368.18 – a decrease of 4.55% over the previous day. West Pharmaceutical Services employs 10,600 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.9 billion.
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Over the last 12 months, West Pharmaceutical Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $310.0661 up to $415.2561. 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 West Pharmaceutical Services's is 1.025. This would suggest that West Pharmaceutical Services'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 $368.18
| 1 week (2024-04-18) | -1.04% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-25) | -5.16% |
| 3 months (2024-01-25) | 1.89% |
| 6 months (2023-10-25) | 12.48% |
| 1 year (2023-04-25) | 3.07% |
| 2 years (2022-04-24) | 5.51% |
| 3 years (2021-04-25) | 14.20% |
| 5 years (2019-04-25) | 197.69% |
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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 West Pharmaceutical Services P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
West Pharmaceutical Services's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 47x. In other words, West Pharmaceutical Services stocks trade at around 47x recent earnings.
That's relatively high 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 high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
West Pharmaceutical Services's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 6.7245. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into West Pharmaceutical Services's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
West Pharmaceutical Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $847.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a West Pharmaceutical Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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