Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW) price on Friday, June 30, rose 0.04% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $53.26.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $53.24, moving within a range at $52.99 and $53.59. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.32 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 13.31. Turning to its 52-week performance, $60.88 and $42.91 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, DOW moved 9.18% over the past month.
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Dow Inc.’s market cap currently stands at around $38.03 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Jul 19, 2023 – Jul 24, 2023. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.80, with its dividend yield at 5.26%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.71, which has seen fiscal year 2023 EPS growth forecast to increase to $3.07 and about $4.6 for fiscal year 2024. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -50.90% for 2023 and 49.80% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $11.66 billion for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $11 billion and $12.32 billion respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -25.60% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2023 to grow to $48.3 billion, representing a -15.10% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that DOW is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in Hold category.
DOW’s current price about 1.96% and 1.36% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 56.37, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.66% and 2.27% in the 30-day chart. Further, Dow Inc. (DOW) has a beta value of 1.34, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.17.
In the market, a comparison of Dow Inc. (DOW) and its peers suggest the former has performed considerably stronger. Data shows DOW’s intraday price has changed 0.04% in last session and 2.46% over the past year. Comparatively, Linde plc (LIN) has moved 0.50% on the day and only 30.77% in the past 12 months. Looking at another peer, we see that Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APD) price has gained 1.62% on the day. However, the stock is 23.20% off its price a year ago. If we look at the PE ratio, we find that Dow Inc.’s ratio stands at 13.31 compared to Linde plc’s 42.34 and Air Products and Chemicals Inc.’s 30.80. Elsewhere, the overall performance for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial shows that the indexes are up 1.23% and 0.84% respectively in the last trading.
If we refocus on Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.21 million over the past 10 days and 4.53 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 708.20 million shares.
The 0.10% of Dow Inc.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 65.60% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 14.4 million on Jun 14, 2023, giving us a short ratio of 2.99. The data shows that as of Jun 14, 2023 short interest in Dow Inc. (DOW) stood at 2.04% of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 11.38 million registered in May 14, 2023. Current price change has pushed the stock 5.70% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the DOW stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.