Air Products and Chemicals is a specialty chemicals business based in the US. Air Products and Chemicals shares (APD) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Air Products and Chemicals employs 23,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $12.2 billion.
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| Latest market close | $258.64 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $209.25 - $299.60 |
| 50-day moving average | $263.55 |
| 200-day moving average | $258.00 |
| Wall St. target price | $281.94 |
| PE ratio | 24.104 |
| Dividend yield | $7.02 (2.66%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $11.06 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $258.64 from 2024-07-25
| 1 week (2024-07-19) | -1.62% |
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| 1 month (2024-06-26) | -1.92% |
| 3 months (2024-04-26) | 9.56% |
| 6 months (2024-01-26) | -1.24% |
| 1 year (2023-07-26) | -14.64% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-26) | 10.23% |
| 3 years (2021-07-26) | 289.12 |
| 5 years (2019-07-26) | 17.04% |
Valuing Air Products and Chemicals stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Air Products and Chemicals's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Air Products and Chemicals's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 24x. In other words, Air Products and Chemicals shares trade at around 24x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Air Products and Chemicals's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.3724. 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 Air Products and Chemicals's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Air Products and Chemicals's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $4.1 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Air Products and Chemicals's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $12.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 22.73% |
| Gross profit TTM | $3.8 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.18% |
| Return on equity TTM | 16.12% |
| Profit margin | 20.32% |
| Book value | $67.09 |
| Market Capitalization | $59.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 59.66% of net profits
Recently Air Products and Chemicals has paid out, on average, around 59.66% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.66% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Air Products and Chemicals shareholders could enjoy a 2.66% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Air Products and Chemicals's case, that would currently equate to about $7.02 per share.
Air Products and Chemicals's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Air Products and Chemicals's most recent dividend payout was on 11 August 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 30 June 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Air Products and Chemicals's shares were split on a 1081:1000 basis on 2 October 2016. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1081 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Air Products and Chemicals shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 7.5% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Air Products and Chemicals shares which in turn could have impacted Air Products and Chemicals's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Air Products and Chemicals's shares have ranged in value from as little as $209.2495 up to $299.5995. 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 Air Products and Chemicals's is 0.822. This would suggest that Air Products and Chemicals's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. provides atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, equipment, and related services in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, India, and internationally. The company produces atmospheric gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, and argon; process gases, such as hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and syngas; and specialty gases for customers in various industries, including refining, chemical, manufacturing, electronics, energy production, medical, food, and metals. It also designs and manufactures equipment for air separation, hydrocarbon recovery and purification, natural gas liquefaction, and liquid helium and liquid hydrogen transport and storage. The company was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. .
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