Paccar Inc (NASDAQ:PCAR) price on current trading day, fall -0.82% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $92.87.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $93.64, moving within a range at $92.73 and $93.54. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.954 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 14.09. Turning to its 52-week performance, $115.49 and $84.65 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PCAR moved -1.88% over the past month.
Paccar Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $48.75 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-28. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.24, with its dividend yield at 1.34%. 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 7.02B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 6.47B and 7.65B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -15.01% 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 28.81B, representing a -8.72% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
11 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 5 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 6 recommend PCAR 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.
PCAR’s current price about -1.35% and 0.93% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 47.27, while 7-day volatility ratio is 0.83% and 1.20% in the 30-day chart. Further, Paccar Inc (PCAR) has a beta value of 0.94, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.91. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $114, forecast between a low of $108 and high of $120. Looking at the price targets, the low is -16.29% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -29.21%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -22.75% jump to $114 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Paccar Inc (NASDAQ:PCAR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.98 over the past 10 days and 3.05 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 524.96 million shares.
The 1.87% of Paccar Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 71.64% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 11.8 million on 2025-05-30, giving us a short ratio of 4.39. The data shows that as of 2025-05-30 short interest in Paccar Inc (PCAR) stood at 259.99998999999997 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 13.8 million registered in 2025-04-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -10.72% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PCAR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
