What Our Analysts Know About Corning

By Chris Stiles • Thursday, December 04 15:19 • Permanent Link

Corning logged a 2.8% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $85.86 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.0%. GLW's trading volume is 4,371,474 compared to the stock's average volume of 7,839,447.

Corning trades -7.99% away from its average analyst target price of $93.31 per share. The 13 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $60.0 to $109.0, and on average have given Corning a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in GLW, you'll want to know the following:

Corning's current price is 577.6% above its Graham number of $12.67, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Corning has moved 67.9% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.8%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 1.56, Corning has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 55.0 while the S&P 500 average is None
GLW has a forward P/E ratio of 37.2 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $2.31 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 6.01 compared to its sector average of None
Corning Incorporated operates in optical communications, display technologies, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences businesses.
Based in Corning, the company has 56,300 full time employees and a market cap of $73.61 Billion. Corning currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.3%.

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