Ferguson Enterprises Inc (NYSE: FERG) is 4.63% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $167.27 and a high of $225.62 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The FERG stock was last observed hovering at around $185.81 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -4.21%.
Currently trading at $181.60, the stock is 3.32% and -5.42% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.68 million and changing -2.27% at the moment leaves the stock -9.77% off its SMA200. FERG registered -5.18% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -14.42%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $192.581 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $201.47365.
The stock witnessed a 3.91% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -9.05%, and is 3.66% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.98% over the week and 1.92% over the month.
Ferguson Enterprises Inc (FERG) has around 35000 employees, a market worth around $36.31B and $29.70B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 21.82 and Fwd P/E is 16.90. Profit margin for the company is 5.68%. Distance from 52-week low is 8.56% and -19.51% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (16.31%).
with sales reaching $6.77B over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -2.20% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 2.32% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 1.41% in year-over-year returns.
1110.0 institutions hold shares in Ferguson Enterprises Inc (FERG), with institutional investors hold 92.67% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 200.28M, and float is at 198.08M with Short Float at 1.49%. Institutions hold 90.42% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 25.45 million shares valued at $4.93 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 12.5599 of the FERG Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 12.09 million shares valued at $2.34 billion to account for 5.9697 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 8.18 million shares representing 4.0371 and valued at over $1.58 billion, while BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP holds 3.1046 of the shares totaling 6.29 million with a market value of $1.22 billion.
Ferguson Enterprises Inc (FERG) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Morrissey Victoria, the company’s Chief Marketing Officer. SEC filings show that Morrissey Victoria sold 2,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Jan 06 ’25 at a price of $177.00 per share for a total of $0.35 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 4282.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 18 ’24, May Brian (Director) acquired 686 shares at an average price of $185.14 for $0.13 million. The insider now directly holds 3,268 shares of Ferguson Enterprises Inc (FERG).
