Agilent Technologies (A) Stock Price, News & Analysis

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Agilent Technologies in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" A shares.
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17 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Agilent Technologies' stock. Their A share price targets range from $90.00 to $165.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $141.29 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.7% from the stock's current price.
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Agilent Technologies' stock was trading at $139.03 at the start of the year. Since then, A shares have decreased by 4.7% and is now trading at $132.44.
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Agilent Technologies saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,950,000 shares, an increase of 10.3% from the March 15th total of 3,580,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,590,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 28th 2024.
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Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 27th. The medical research company reported $1.29 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.22 by $0.07. The medical research company earned $1.66 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.59 billion. Agilent Technologies had a net margin of 18.35% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 27.09%. The business's revenue was down 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.37 EPS.
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Agilent Technologies declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 21st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.236 per share on Wednesday, April 24th. This represents a $0.94 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 1st.
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Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.69%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 22.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, A will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.49% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) stock in their portfolio include Newday Ocean Health ETF (AHOY), ProShares Nanotechnology ETF (TINY), Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF (GNOM), TCW Transform Supply Chain ETF (SUPP), Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health ETF (EDOC), First Trust Water ETF (FIW), Hennessy Stance ESG Large Cap ETF (STNC) and Argent Mid Cap ETF (AMID).

Agilent Technologies declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Monday, January 9th 2023, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 4.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Agilent Technologies updated its second quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.170-1.200 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 1.270. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.6 billion-$1.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.6 billion.

452 employees have rated Agilent Technologies Chief Executive Officer Mike McMullen on Glassdoor.com. Mike McMullen has an approval rating of 98% among the company's employees. This puts Mike McMullen in the top 20% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Agilent Technologies' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.11%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.07%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.04%), Grimes & Company Inc. (0.04%), Perpetual Ltd (0.04%) and Rheos Capital Works Inc. (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Boon Hwee Koh, Dominique Grau, Heidi Fields, Henrik Ancher-Jensen, Jacob Thaysen, Michael R Mcmullen, Michael Tang, Padraig Mcdonnell, Philip Binns and Rodney Gonsalves.
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