Uncovering APi's (APG) Latest Developments

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, June 02 10:50 • Permanent Link

With gains of 3.1%, APi was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $41.84 and have logged a 0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

APi has moved 28.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 27.3%
APG has an average analyst rating of buy and is -21.35% away from its mean target price of $53.2 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.64
APi has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -65.4 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.93 and its forward P/E ratio is 21.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.2 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
APi is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.93 and an average P/B of 2.93
APG has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 68.8% and gross profit margins of 0.3%
The company has a free cash flow of $715.88 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
APi Group Corporation provides fire and life safety, security, elevator and escalator, and specialty services worldwide. It operates in two segments, Safety Services and Specialty Services. The company offers fire protection solutions; electronic security systems; and elevators and escalators, including the design, installation, inspection, service, and monitoring of life safety systems to high tech services, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, fulfillment and distribution centers, and critical infrastructure end markets. It also provides various specialty contracting, fabrication and distribution, and infrastructure and utility services to critical infrastructure, high tech services, and healthcare end markets. The company was formerly known as J2 Acquisition Limited and changed its name to APi Group Corporation in October 2019. APi Group Corporation was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in New Brighton, Minnesota.

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