Agilent Technologies -- The Essentials

By Blake Campbell • Wednesday, November 12 15:17 • Permanent Link

Agilent Technologies logged a 1.9% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $152.32 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.0%. A's trading volume is 1,158,959 compared to the stock's average volume of 1,669,535.

Anyone interested in buying A should be aware of the facts below:

Agilent Technologies's current price is 238.9% above its Graham number of $44.95, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Agilent Technologies has moved 11.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 14.4%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 4.27, Agilent Technologies has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 35.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
A has a forward P/E ratio of 27.0 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $5.65 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 6.78 compared to its sector average of 2.89
Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides application focused solutions to the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets worldwide.
Based in Santa Clara, the company has 18,000 full time employees and a market cap of $43.18 Billion. Agilent Technologies currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.7%.

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