NYSE:AITApplied Industrial Technologies Stock Price, Forecast & News

Applied Industrial Technologies' stock was trading at $47.59 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, AIT shares have increased by 29.0% and is now trading at $61.38. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Applied Industrial Technologies in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Applied Industrial Technologies.

Applied Industrial Technologies is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 12th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Applied Industrial Technologies.

Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 30th. The industrial products company reported $1.02 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.01 by $0.01. The industrial products company earned $830.80 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $858.94 million. Applied Industrial Technologies had a return on equity of 17.40% and a net margin of 0.99%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 6.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.16 EPS. View Applied Industrial Technologies' earnings history.

Applied Industrial Technologies announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 29th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.32 per share on Monday, August 31st. This represents a $1.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.09%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 13th. View Applied Industrial Technologies' dividend history.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Applied Industrial Technologies' stock. Their forecasts range from $70.00 to $81.00. On average, they anticipate Applied Industrial Technologies' share price to reach $74.25 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Applied Industrial Technologies.

News headlines about AIT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Applied Industrial Technologies earned a coverage optimism score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Applied Industrial Technologies.

Applied Industrial Technologies saw a decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 503,600 shares, a decrease of 7.4% from the May 31st total of 543,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 259,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View Applied Industrial Technologies' Current Options Chain.

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Applied Industrial Technologies trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AIT."

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Applied Industrial Technologies has a market capitalization of $2.38 billion and generates $3.47 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $143.99 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.41 on an earnings per share basis. Applied Industrial Technologies employs 6,650 workers across the globe.

The official website for Applied Industrial Technologies is www.applied.com.

Applied Industrial Technologies' mailing address is ONE APPLIED PLAZA, CLEVELAND OH, 44115. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 216-426-4000 or via email at [email protected]