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West Pharmaceutical Services is a medical instruments & supplies business based in the US. West Pharmaceutical Services shares (WST) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. West Pharmaceutical Services employs 10,700 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.9 billion.
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| Latest market close | $343.73 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $205.76 - $376.72 |
| 50-day moving average | $353.15 |
| 200-day moving average | $287.67 |
| Wall St. target price | $369.22 |
| PE ratio | 47.2806 |
| Dividend yield | $0.74 (0.22%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $7.27 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $343.73 from 2023-06-02
| 1 week (2023-05-26) | 0.07% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2023-05-05) | -6.71% |
| 3 months (2023-03-03) | 4.39% |
| 6 months (2022-12-05) | 43.56% |
| 1 year (2022-06-01) | 11.39% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2021-06-02) | 2.98% |
| 3 years (2020-06-05) | 67.46% |
| 5 years (2018-06-05) | 266.09% |
Valuing West Pharmaceutical Services stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of West Pharmaceutical Services's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
| Revenue TTM | $2.9 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 25.74% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 13.22% |
| Return on equity TTM | 21.64% |
| Profit margin | 19.15% |
| Book value | $37.42 |
| Market capitalisation | $25.5 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 9.09% of net profits
Recently West Pharmaceutical Services has paid out, on average, around 9.09% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.22% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), West Pharmaceutical Services shareholders could enjoy a 0.22% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In West Pharmaceutical Services's case, that would currently equate to about $0.74 per share.
While West Pharmaceutical Services's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that West Pharmaceutical Services is investing more in its future growth.
West Pharmaceutical Services's most recent dividend payout was on 2 August 2023. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 25 July 2023 (the "ex-dividend date").
West Pharmaceutical Services's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 27 September 2013. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your West Pharmaceutical Services shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for West Pharmaceutical Services shares which in turn could have impacted West Pharmaceutical Services's share price.
Over the last 12 months, West Pharmaceutical Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $205.7632 up to $376.72. 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 1.0911. 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).
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells containment and delivery systems for injectable drugs and healthcare products in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in two segments, Proprietary Products and Contract-Manufactured Products. The Proprietary Products segment offers stoppers and seals for injectable packaging systems; syringe and cartridge components, including custom solutions for the needs of injectable drug applications, as well as administration systems that enhance the safe delivery of drugs through advanced reconstitution, mixing, and transfer technologies; and films, coatings, washing, and vision inspection and sterilization processes and services to enhance the quality of packaging components. It also provides drug containment solutions, including Crystal Zenith, a cyclic olefin polymer in the form of vials, syringes, and cartridges; and self-injection devices, as well as a range of integrated solutions, including analytical lab services, pre-approval primary packaging support and engineering development, regulatory expertise, and after-sales technical support. This segment serves biologic, generic, and pharmaceutical drug companies. The Contract-Manufactured Products segment is involved in the design, manufacture, and automated assembly of devices used in surgical, diagnostic, ophthalmic, injectable, and other drug delivery systems, as well as consumer products.
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