Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE: SWK) Has Decreased By -33.10 Percent This Year. Is It A Better Buy Than Others?

Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE:SWK)’s traded shares stood at 7.19 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.19. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $60.02, to imply a decrease of -2.02% or -$1.24 in intraday trading. The SWK share’s 52-week high remains $110.88, putting it -84.74% down since that peak but still an impressive 10.18% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $53.91. The company has a valuation of $9.28B, with an average of 3.04 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.51 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK), translating to a mean rating of 2.70. Of 10 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give SWK a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 5 advise Hold as 5 recommend it as a Buy.

Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE:SWK) trade information

After registering a -2.02% downside in the last session, Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 1.49%, and -21.93% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -25.25%. Short interest in Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE:SWK) saw shorts transact 8.53 million shares and set a 2.64 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $90 and $90 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, SWK has been trading -49.95% off suggested target high and -49.95% from its likely low.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -20.90% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 7.29% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 17.33% annually.

SWK Dividends

Stanley Black & Decker Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-04. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Stanley Black & Decker Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 3.27, with the share yield ticking at 5.45% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 2.82%.

Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE:SWK)’s Major holders

Stanley Black & Decker Inc insiders hold 0.33% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 93.12% of the shares at 93.43% float percentage. In total, 93.12% institutions holds shares in the company, led by PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 19.61 million shares (or 13.0423% of shares), all amounting to roughly $1.57 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 18.59 million shares, or about 12.3615% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $1.49 billion.

We also have INVESTMENT CO OF AMERICA and AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Stanley Black & Decker Inc (SWK) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , INVESTMENT CO OF AMERICA holds roughly 5.88 shares. This is just over 3.80% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $352.63 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 5.36, or 3.47% of the shares, all valued at about 321.83 million.