Alimentation Couche-Tard is a specialty retail business based in Canada. Alimentation Couche-Tard stocks (ATD.A.TO) are listed on the TO and all prices are listed in Canadian Dollars. Its last market close was C$53.92 – the same closing value as a week prior. Alimentation Couche-Tard employs 98,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around C$53.2 billion.
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- How volatile are Alimentation Couche-Tard shares?
- Does Alimentation Couche-Tard pay a dividend?
- Have Alimentation Couche-Tard shares ever split?
- Other common questions
Alimentation Couche-Tard stock price (TO:ATD-A)
Use our graph to track the performance of ATD.A stocks over time.Alimentation Couche-Tard shares at a glance
Information last updated 2022-02-09.
| Latest market close | C$54.26 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | C$0.00 - C$0.00 |
| 50-day moving average | C$49.02 |
| 200-day moving average | C$46.74 |
| Wall St. target price | N/A |
| PE ratio | 16.1032 |
| Dividend yield | C$0.306 (0.89%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | C$3.08 |
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Alimentation Couche-Tard price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of C$54.26 from 2022-02-08
| 1 week (2023-03-16) | N/A |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2023-02-23) | N/A |
| 3 months (2022-12-23) | N/A |
| 6 months (2022-09-23) | N/A |
| 1 year (2022-03-23) | N/A |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2021-03-26) | 35.01% |
| 3 years (2020-03-27) | 65.73% |
| 5 years (2018-03-26) | 55.99 |
Is Alimentation Couche-Tard stock undervalued or overvalued?
Valuing Alimentation Couche-Tard stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Alimentation Couche-Tard's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Alimentation Couche-Tard financials
| Revenue TTM | C$53.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 6.64% |
| Gross profit TTM | C$10.1 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 7.86% |
| Return on equity TTM | 21.23% |
| Profit margin | 4.95% |
| Book value | C$12.08 |
| Market capitalisation | C$52.8 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Alimentation Couche-Tard share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 10.59% of net profits
Recently Alimentation Couche-Tard has paid out, on average, around 10.59% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.89% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Alimentation Couche-Tard shareholders could enjoy a 0.89% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Alimentation Couche-Tard's case, that would currently equate to about C$0.306 per share.
While Alimentation Couche-Tard's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Alimentation Couche-Tard is investing more in its future growth.
Alimentation Couche-Tard's most recent dividend payout was on 16 December 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 1 December 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Alimentation Couche-Tard's shares ever split?
Alimentation Couche-Tard's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 30 September 2019. 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 Alimentation Couche-Tard shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Alimentation Couche-Tard shares which in turn could have impacted Alimentation Couche-Tard's share price.
Alimentation Couche-Tard share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Alimentation Couche-Tard's shares have ranged in value from as little as C$0 up to C$0. 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 (TO average) beta is 1, while Alimentation Couche-Tard's is 0.8973. This would suggest that Alimentation Couche-Tard's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Alimentation Couche-Tard overview
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. operates and licenses convenience stores. Its convenience stores sell tobacco products, grocery items, candies and snacks, beer, wine, beverages, and fresh food offerings; road transportation fuels; and aviation fuels, as well as energy for stationary engines. The company operates its convenience stores chain under the Circle K, Couche-Tard, Holiday, Ingo, and Mac's banners. It is also involved in the sale of lottery tickets, calling and gift cards, postage stamps, and bus tickets; issuance of money orders; and provision of automatic teller machines and car wash services. As of April 25, 2021, it operated and licensed 12,328 convenience stores, which include 9,976 company-operated stores in North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as 1,900 stores, which are operated under the Circle K banner in Cambodia, Egypt, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Honduras, Indonesia, Macau, Mexico, Mongolia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. The company was formerly known as Actidev Inc.
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