Edgewell Personal Care Co (NYSE: EPC) is -34.42% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $22.61 and a high of $41.50 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 EPC stock was last observed hovering at around $25.1 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.6%.
Currently trading at $25.7, the stock is 6.45% and -3.35% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.35 million and changing 2.39% at the moment leaves the stock -18.48% off its SMA200. EPC registered -23.51% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -21.33%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $26.5918 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $31.52615.
The stock witnessed a -5.03% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -8.18%, and is 4.98% 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 3.30% over the week and 3.51% over the month.
Edgewell Personal Care Co (EPC) has around 6700 employees, a market worth around $1.21B and $2.22B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 15.00 and Fwd P/E is 8.41. Profit margin for the company is 3.81%. Distance from 52-week low is 13.67% and -38.07% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.87%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -4.39% this year
354.0 institutions hold shares in Edgewell Personal Care Co (EPC), with institutional investors hold 109.06% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 47.31M, and float is at 46.36M with Short Float at 5.95%. Institutions hold 104.19% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 7.67 million shares valued at $308.39 million. The investor’s holdings represent 15.5015 of the EPC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 5.77 million shares valued at $232.08 million to account for 11.6656 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP which holds 3.62 million shares representing 7.3149 and valued at over $145.52 million, while AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC holds 6.3335 of the shares totaling 3.14 million with a market value of $126.0 million.
