Here's What You May Have Missed About Align Technology(ALGN)

By Ken Smith • Friday, March 31 15:05 • Permanent Link

Align Technology marked a 7.1% change today, compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $334.0? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Align Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets Invisalign clear aligners, and iTero intraoral scanners and services for orthodontists and general practitioner dentists in the United States, Switzerland, China, and internationally.
Align Technology belongs to the Health Care sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.45 and an average price to book (P/B) of 4.16
The company's P/B ratio is 7.2
Align Technology has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 72.5 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $4.61 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 34.2, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $9.76
ALGN has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.9, which shows the company is very undervalued compared to its earnings growth estimates.
Over the last four years, Align Technology has averaged free cash flows of $538,274,750.00, which on average grew -6.8%
ALGN's gross profit margins have averaged 72.1 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of -0.6 % and a coefficient of variability of 2.2 %.
Align Technology has moved -30.1% over the last year compared to -10.9% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -19.0%
ALGN has an average analyst rating of buy and is -0.77% away from its mean target price of $336.6 per share

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