Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE:APD) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 0.53% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $291.84.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $290.3, moving within a range at $288.46 and $292.67. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.873 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 42.41. Turning to its 52-week performance, $341.14 and $243.69 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, APD moved 3.02% over the past month.
Air Products & Chemicals Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $64.95 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-01. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 7.12, with its dividend yield at 2.44%. 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 2.98B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 2.81B and 3.19B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -0.20% 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 11.98B, representing a -1.02% decline 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 APD is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
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 6 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend APD 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 Hold 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 9.86, with APD’s current price about 3.89% and 5.72% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 66.73, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.06% and 1.82% in the 30-day chart. Further, Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) has a beta value of 0.81. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $324, forecast between a low of $324 and high of $324. Looking at the price targets, the low is -11.02% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -11.02%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -11.02% jump to $324 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Air Products & Chemicals Inc (NYSE:APD), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.47 over the past 10 days and 1.32 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 222.54 million shares.
The 0.89% of Air Products & Chemicals Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 92.55% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.54 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 4.04. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) stood at 203.99998999999997 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 4.75 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 17.99% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the APD stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
