Prudential plc ADR (NYSE:PUK) shares, rose in value on Friday, February 14, with price down by -0.05% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $18.31.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $18.32, falling within a range of $18.125 and $18.435. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.207 whereas the PE ratio was 28.95 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $21.42, and the low was $14.39. On the whole, PUK has fluctuated by 21.82% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Prudential plc ADR currently standing at about $23.97 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.42, with its dividend yield at 2.30%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that PUK’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.98, with the price of PUK currently trading nearly 9.21% and 12.56% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 71.29, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.64% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.53%. Furthermore, Prudential plc ADR (PUK)’s beta value is 1.24, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.41.
A comparison of Prudential plc ADR (PUK) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. PUK showed an intraday change of -0.05% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -8.54%%.
Data on historical trading for Prudential plc ADR (NYSE:PUK) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.01 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.00 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.36 billion shares outstanding.
Prudential plc ADR’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 2.09% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.01 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 0.88. According to the data, the short interest in Prudential plc ADR (PUK) stood at 9.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 0.25 million. The stock has risen by 14.87% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the PUK stock heading into the next quarter.
