In the latest trading session, 3.76 million Amcor Plc (NYSE:AMCR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.84. With the company’s most recent per share price at $9.59 changing hands around $0.07 or 0.74% at last look, the market valuation stands at $13.86B. AMCR’s current price is a discount, trading about -19.71% off its 52-week high of $11.48. The share price had its 52-week low at $8.78, which suggests the last value was 8.45% up since then. When we look at Amcor Plc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 13.73 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 13.57 million.
Analysts gave the Amcor Plc (AMCR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.37. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 7 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 3 recommended AMCR as a Hold, 4 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Amcor Plc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.16.
Amcor Plc (NYSE:AMCR) trade information
Instantly AMCR is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 0.95%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 1.91%, with the 5-day performance at 0.95% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Amcor Plc (NYSE:AMCR) is -4.00% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 81.17 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 5.29 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 10.8, meaning bulls need an upside of 11.2% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, AMCR’s forecast low is 10.8 with 10.8 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -12.62% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -12.62% for it to hit the projected low.
Amcor Plc (AMCR) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Amcor Plc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -4.77% over the past 6 months, a 5.71% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 3.50%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 1.77% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 8 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 3.33B. 8 analysts are of the opinion that Amcor Plc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 3.52B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 3.25B and 3.41B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 2.36%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 3.26%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 6.70%. The 2025 estimates are for Amcor Plc earnings to increase by 5.40%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 7.52% per year.
AMCR Dividends
Amcor Plc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February. The 5.24% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.50. It is important to note, however, that the 5.24% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 4.35 per year.
Amcor Plc (NYSE:AMCR)’s Major holders
STATE STREET CORP holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.3901% or 91.95 million shares worth $899.3 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard 500 Index Fund and Schwab Strategic Tr-Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF. With 37.85 shares estimated at $362.07 million under it, the former controlled 2.62% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Schwab Strategic Tr-Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF held about 2.36% of the shares, roughly 34.11 shares worth around $326.24 million.
