LON:HLMAHalma Share Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Halma plc Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add GBX 2,183 -61.00 (-2.72 %) (As of 07/14/2020) Add Compare Share Today's Range 2,183Now: GBX 2,183▼ 2,25550-Day Range 2,178MA: GBX 2,265.92▼ 2,33852-Week Range 19.03Now: GBX 2,183▼ 2,377Volume672,192 shsAverage Volume921,195 shsMarket Capitalization£8.29 billionP/E Ratio44.92Dividend Yield0.88%BetaN/A ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartCompetitorsDividendInsider TradesHeadlines Halma plc provides process and infrastructure safety, medical, and environmental and analysis products worldwide. Its Process Safety segment offers safety systems for warehousing and hazardous industrial processes; gas detection instruments; pressure management products; interlocking systems for safeguarding dangerous machines; pipeline corrosion monitoring products and systems; and process safety systems. The company's Infrastructure Safety segment provides networked fire detectors and control panels; smoke and heat detectors, sounders, beacons, and interfaces; wireless and wired fire detection devices; solutions for people and vehicle flow; flame detectors, beam smoke detectors, and specialist fire extinguishing systems; automatic fire detection and suppression systems; and electronic security systems and signaling products. Its Medical segment offers mechanical and fluidic components; ophthalmic diagnostic and surgical equipment, and pharmaceutical products; peristaltic, syringe, piston, and gear pumps; miniature valves, micro pumps, and fluid components; real-time location systems; specialized components and fluid transfer subassemblies; diagnostic medical devices; clinical grade non-invasive blood pressure monitoring products and technologies; and lenses as aids to diagnosis and surgery. The company's Environmental & Analysis segment provides mass flow meters and controllers, and pressure controllers; ultraviolet disinfection and water treatment systems; optical and high temperature metallized fibers; multispectral and digital imaging systems; multi-utility M2M solutions; equipment and software to monitor and analyze water cycle; radiometric and photometric systems and software; spectrometers and spectral sensors; water and environmental analysis equipment; moisture management products; electrochemical sensors; opto-electronic solutions; and camera systems and devices. Halma plc was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom.Read More Beat the Market (BTM) Rank™ 2.0 Analyst's Opinion Consensus RatingHalma has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.09, and is based on 3 buy ratings, 6 hold ratings, and 2 sell ratings.Price Target Upside/DownsideAccording to analysts' consensus price target of GBX 2,033.89, Halma has a potential downside of 6.8% from its current price of GBX 2,183.Amount of Analyst CoverageHalma has been the subject of 8 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock. Previous Next 2.1 Community Rank Outperform VotesHalma has received 403 “outperform” votes. (Add your “outperform” vote.)Underperform VotesHalma has received 558 “underperform” votes. (Add your “underperform” vote.)Community SentimentHalma has received 58.06% “underperform” votes from our community.MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Halma and other stocks. Vote “Outperform” if you believe HLMA will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote “Underperform” if you believe HLMA will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Previous Next 0.8 Dividend Strength Dividend YieldHalma has a dividend yield of 0.88%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.Dividend GrowthHalma does not have a long track record of dividend growth.Dividend CoverageThe dividend payout ratio of Halma is 41.15%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Previous Next 0.0 Company Ownership Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Halma insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought GBX 0 in company stock and sold £467,318.16 in company stock. Previous Next 0.0 Earnings and Valuation Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Halma is 44.92, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 16.84.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of Halma is 44.92, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Industrials sector average P/E ratio of about 9.46.Price to Book Value per Share RatioHalma has a P/B Ratio of 7.27. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities. Previous Next Analyst Opinion: 2.0Community Rank: 2.1Dividend Strength: 0.8Insider Behavior: 0.0Valuation: 0.0 5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -Overall Beat the Market Rank™1.00 out of 5 stars Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange LON Industry Security & Protection Services Sub-IndustryN/A SectorIndustrials Current SymbolLON:HLMA Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIKN/A Webwww.halma.com Phone+44-1494-721111Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio42.36 Current Ratio1.84 Quick Ratio1.23Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio44.92 Forward P/E Ratio0.41 P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales£1.34 billion Price / Sales6.19 Cash FlowGBX 27.07 per share Price / Cash Flow80.64 Book ValueGBX 300.10 per share Price / Book7.27Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A Net IncomeN/A Net MarginsN/A Return on EquityN/A Return on AssetsN/AMiscellaneous Employees6,341 Outstanding Shares379,644,992Market Cap£8.29 billion Next Earnings DateN/A OptionableNot Optionable GBX 2,183 -61.00 (-2.72 %) (As of 07/14/2020) 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | Advanced Chart Receive HLMA News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for HLMA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Halma (LON:HLMA) Frequently Asked Questions How has Halma's stock been impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)? Halma's stock was trading at GBX 1,913.50 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, HLMA shares have increased by 14.1% and is now trading at GBX 2,183. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Halma? 11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Halma in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Halma. How often does Halma pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Halma? Halma declared a dividend on Tuesday, July 14th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 27th will be paid a dividend of GBX 9.96 per share on Thursday, October 1st. This represents a dividend yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 27th. This is a positive change from Halma's previous dividend of GBX 6.54. The official announcement can be accessed at this link. View Halma's dividend history. What price target have analysts set for HLMA? 11 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Halma's stock. Their forecasts range from GBX 1,680 to GBX 2,530. On average, they expect Halma's share price to reach GBX 2,033.89 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.8%. View analysts' price targets for Halma. Has Halma been receiving favorable news coverage? News articles about HLMA stock have trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Halma earned a daily sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Halma. Who are some of Halma's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Halma include G4S (GFS), Wrap Technologies (WRTC), Wrap Technologies (WRTC), Marlowe (MRL), London Security (LSC), CompX International (CIX), Redflex (RDF), Hills (HIL), Thruvision Group (THRU), Ava Risk Group (AVA), Xtek (XTE), Command Security (MOC), Synectics (SNX), Gatekeeper Systems (GSI) and VerifyMe (VRME). View all competitors. What other stocks do shareholders of Halma own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Halma investors own include Rotork (ROR), Hill & Smith (HILS), Montage Resources (MR), Renishaw (RSW), DS Smith (SMDS), Becton Dickinson and (BDX), Berkeley Group (BKG), Randgold Resources (RRS), Raytheon Technologies (RTX) and Aggreko (AGK). Who are Halma's key executives? Halma's management team includes the following people: Mr. Andrew J. Williams, Group CEO, Member of Exec. Board & Exec. Director (Age 52)Mr. Adam J. Meyers, Chief Exec. of Medical & Environmental Sectors, Member of Exec. Board & Exec. Director (Age 57)Ms. Jennifer Ward, Group Talent & Communications Director, Member of Exec. Board and DirectorMr. Marc A. Ronchetti, Group CFO & Exec. DirectorMr. Paul Simmons, Chief Exec. of Infrastructure Safety Sector & Member of Exec. Management Board What is Halma's stock symbol? Halma trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "HLMA." How do I buy shares of Halma? Shares of HLMA and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock. What is Halma's stock price today? One share of HLMA stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 2,183. How big of a company is Halma? Halma has a market capitalization of £8.29 billion and generates £1.34 billion in revenue each year. Halma employs 6,341 workers across the globe. What is Halma's official website? The official website for Halma is www.halma.com. How can I contact Halma? Halma's mailing address is Misbourne Court, Rectory Way, AMERSHAM, HP7 0DE, United Kingdom. The company can be reached via phone at +44-1494-721111. 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