Baxter International Inc (NYSE:BAX) price on current trading day, rose 0.91% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $28.82.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $28.56, moving within a range at $28.27 and $29.15. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.609. Turning to its 52-week performance, $40.49 and $26.25 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BAX moved -5.79% over the past month.
Baxter International Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $14.79 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 0.80, with its dividend yield at 2.78%. 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 2.82B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 2.8B and 2.86B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -25.95% 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 11.38B, representing a 6.98% 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 BAX is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
21 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 10 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 10 recommend BAX as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 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.
BAX’s current price about -1.67% and -4.22% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 46.05, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.67% and 2.79% in the 30-day chart. Further, Baxter International Inc (BAX) has a beta value of 0.61. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $44.5, forecast between a low of $30 and high of $98. Looking at the price targets, the low is -4.09% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -240.04%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -54.41% jump to $44.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Baxter International Inc (NYSE:BAX), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 5.47 over the past 10 days and 4.02 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 513.08 million shares.
The 0.87% of Baxter International Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 97.38% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 17.16 million on 2025-06-30, giving us a short ratio of 4.78. The data shows that as of 2025-06-30 short interest in Baxter International Inc (BAX) stood at 504.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 15.69 million registered in 2025-05-30. Current price change has pushed the stock -18.50% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BAX stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
