Eaton (ETN) — Fundamentals Overview

By Emilio Sanchez • Saturday, April 08 12:03 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Eaton, a Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company whose shares moved -1.4% Friday. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Eaton has moved 9.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -7.0%
ETN has an average analyst rating of buy and is -16.15% away from its mean target price of $186.35 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $6.14
Eaton has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $9.14 and its forward P/E ratio is 17.1
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.6 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Eaton is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.49 and an average P/B of 3.78
ETN has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 31.4% and gross profit margins of 0.3%
The company has a free cash flow of $1,575,500,032.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Eaton Corporation plc operates as a power management company worldwide.

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