Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE: SWK) is -26.18% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $57.77 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 $62.88 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -3.61%.
Currently trading at $59.27, the stock is -23.09% and -28.53% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 6.43 million and changing -5.74% at the moment leaves the stock -34.34% off its SMA200. SWK registered -37.57% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -44.75%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $82.9276 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $90.26595.
The stock witnessed a -33.38% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -26.61%, and is -22.91% 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 6.94% over the week and 3.79% over the month.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) has around 48500 employees, a market worth around $9.16B and $15.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 31.40 and Fwd P/E is 9.35. Profit margin for the company is 1.86%. Distance from 52-week low is 2.59% and -46.55% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (1.95%).
with sales reaching $3.72B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 16.69% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -0.18% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -3.82% in year-over-year returns.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) Top Institutional Holders
1064.0 institutions hold shares in Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK), with institutional investors hold 93.61% 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 93.31% 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 5.6608 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).
