Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE: SWK) is -3.21% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $77.35 and a high of $110.88 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The SWK stock was last observed hovering at around $78.44 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.73%.
Currently trading at $77.71, the stock is -5.50% and -8.67% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.65 million and changing -0.93% at the moment leaves the stock -14.37% off its SMA200. SWK registered -17.71% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -27.60%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $85.0868 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $90.75285.
The stock witnessed a -11.11% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -4.47%, and is -3.49% down 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 2.45% over the week and 2.91% over the month.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) has around 48500 employees, a market worth around $12.01B and $15.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 41.17 and Fwd P/E is 12.23. Profit margin for the company is 1.86%. Distance from 52-week low is 0.47% and -29.92% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (1.95%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 18.45% this year
1081.0 institutions hold shares in Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK), with institutional investors hold 93.71% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 154.37M, and float is at 154.01M with Short Float at 5.20%. Institutions hold 93.40% 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 9.145 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).
