Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE: SWK) is 6.81% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $77.70 and a high of $110.88 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 SWK stock was last observed hovering at around $86.46 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.7%.
Currently trading at $85.76, the stock is -0.61% and 1.56% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.09 million and changing -0.81% at the moment leaves the stock -6.08% off its SMA200. SWK registered -4.38% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -9.19%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $84.5816 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $91.3337.
The stock witnessed a 5.15% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -6.81%, and is 0.69% 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 2.99% over the week and 2.54% over the month.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) has around 50500 employees, a market worth around $13.22B and $15.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 45.43 and Fwd P/E is 13.22. Profit margin for the company is 1.86%. Distance from 52-week low is 10.37% and -22.66% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.00%).
with sales reaching $3.73B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 20.74% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -0.07% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -3.68% in year-over-year returns.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) Top Institutional Holders
1082.0 institutions hold shares in Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK), with institutional investors hold 91.10% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 154.16M, and float is at 153.44M with Short Float at 3.66%. Institutions hold 90.88% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ with over 19.61 million shares valued at $1.57 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 13.0561% of the SWK Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 18.59 million shares valued at $1.49 billion to account for 12.3745 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 13.75 million shares representing 9.1547% and valued at over $1.1 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 5.6668 of the shares totaling 8.51 million with a market value of $680.18 million.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Link Janet, the company’s SVP, General Counsel & Sec’y. SEC filings show that Link Janet sold 1,990 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 07 ’25 at a price of $85.24 per share for a total of $0.17 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 9862.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 01 ’24, Link Janet (SVP, General Counsel & Sec’y) disposed off 13,520 shares at an average price of $103.91 for $1.4 million. The insider now directly holds 31,960 shares of Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK).
