Mckesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) price on Friday, February 07, fall -0.68% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $595.69.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $599.75, moving within a range at $591.24 and $603.2. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.436 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 27.30. Turning to its 52-week performance, $637.51 and $464.42 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MCK moved 1.79% over the past month.
Mckesson Corporation’s market cap currently stands at around $75.62 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.66, with its dividend yield at 0.45%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 93.7B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 91.42B and 94.97B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 22.72% 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 to grow to 361.95B, representing a 17.15% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that MCK is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
8 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 7 recommend MCK as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.84, with MCK’s current price about 0.06% and 0.67% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 51.34, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.53% and 2.18% in the 30-day chart. Further, Mckesson Corporation (MCK) has a beta value of 0.52, and an average true range (ATR) of 13.22. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $635, forecast between a low of $535 and high of $715. Looking at the price targets, the low is 10.19% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -20.03%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -6.6% jump to $635 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Mckesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.88 over the past 10 days and 809.88K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 126.94 million shares.
The 0.12% of Mckesson Corporation’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 87.66% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 1.6 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.17. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Mckesson Corporation (MCK) stood at 126.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 2.04 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 4.52% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MCK stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
