Agilent Technologies Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:A)

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Agilent Technologies in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" A shares.
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15 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Agilent Technologies' stock. Their A share price targets range from $105.00 to $170.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $137.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.9% from the stock's current price.
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Agilent Technologies' stock was trading at $149.65 at the beginning of the year. Since then, A stock has decreased by 13.9% and is now trading at $128.79.
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Agilent Technologies saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,730,000 shares, an increase of 15.1% from the October 31st total of 4,980,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,050,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.8 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 27th 2024.
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Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) issued its earnings results on Monday, November, 20th. The medical research company reported $1.38 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.34 by $0.04. The medical research company earned $1.69 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.67 billion. Agilent Technologies had a net margin of 18.15% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 28.24%. The business's revenue was down 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.53 EPS.
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Agilent Technologies declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 15th. Investors of record on Tuesday, January 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.236 per share on Wednesday, January 24th. This represents a $0.94 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.73%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 29th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.23.
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Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) pays an annual dividend of $0.90 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.71%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 21.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, A will have a dividend payout ratio of 14.80% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) stock in their portfolio include Global X Genomics & Biotechnology ETF (GNOM), Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health ETF (EDOC), ProShares Nanotechnology ETF (TINY), First Trust Water ETF (FIW), TCW Transform Supply Chain ETF (SUPP), Kelly CRISPR & Gene Editing Technology ETF (XDNA), WisdomTree U.S. AI Enhanced Value Fund (AIVL) and Invesco Focused Discovery Growth ETF (IVDG).

Agilent Technologies announced that its board has approved a share buyback program on Monday, January 9th 2023, which permits the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 4.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Agilent Technologies updated its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Monday, November, 20th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.20-$1.23 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.32. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.55 billion-$1.60 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.67 billion.

452 employees have rated Agilent Technologies Chief Executive Officer Mike McMullen on Glassdoor.com. Mike McMullen has an approval rating of 98% among the company's employees. This puts Mike McMullen in the top 20% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Agilent Technologies' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.79%), Wellington Management Group LLP (3.51%), Morgan Stanley (1.47%), Northern Trust Corp (1.40%), Deutsche Bank AG (1.28%) and Deutsche Bank AG (1.28%). Insiders that own company stock include Boon Hwee Koh, Dominique Grau, Henrik Ancher-Jensen, Jacob Thaysen, Michael R Mcmullen, Michael Tang, Padraig Mcdonnell, Rodney Gonsalves and Samraat S Raha.
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