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What Should Investors Know About Agilent Technologies (A) Stock?

Shares of Industrials sector company Agilent Technologies moved 0.1% today, and are now trading at a price of $123.99. The large-cap stock's daily volume was 2,334,173 compared to its average volume of 2,042,240. The S&P 500 index returned a 0.0% performance.

Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides application focused solutions to the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets worldwide. The company is based in Santa Clara and has 18,000 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $36,277,862,400. Agilent Technologies currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.7% per year.

16 analysts are following Agilent Technologies and have set target prices ranging from $100.0 to $160.0 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of buy. At today's prices, A is trading -5.13% away from its average analyst target price of $130.69 per share.

Over the last year, A shares have gone down by -20.0%, which represents a difference of -34.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $160.26 per share and its 52 week low is $96.8. With average free cash flows of $1.05 Billion that have been growing at an average rate of 7.7% over the last 6 years, Agilent Technologies declining stock performance may not be reflective of the quality of its underlying business.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2023 1,704,000 284,000 1,420,000 39.08
2022 1,312,000 291,000 1,021,000 -21.28
2021 1,485,000 188,000 1,297,000 61.72
2020 921,000 119,000 802,000 -7.39
2019 1,021,000 155,000 866,000 -4.84
2018 1,087,000 177,000 910,000
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