Agilent Technologies (A) Stock Price, News & Analysis

17 Wall Street equities research 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 equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" A shares.
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17 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Agilent Technologies' stock. Their A share price targets range from $90.00 to $165.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock 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 beginning 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 in 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 currently 2.5 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 27th. The medical research company reported $1.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.22 by $0.07. The medical research company had revenue of $1.66 billion for 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% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.37 earnings per share.
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Agilent Technologies declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 21st. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 2nd will be paid 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 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 0.70%. 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 15.46% 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 announced that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Monday, January 9th 2023, which authorizes the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 4.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Agilent Technologies issued an update on 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 earnings per share 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 number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.24%), 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%) and Perpetual Ltd (0.04%). 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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