Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) Releases FY25 Earnings Guidance

Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) issued an update on its FY25 earnings guidance on Monday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.54-5.61 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.65. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.79-6.87 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.82 billion. Agilent Technologies also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 5.540-5.610 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts recently issued reports on the company. Citigroup boosted their price objective on Agilent Technologies from $150.00 to $165.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 22nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price objective on Agilent Technologies from $165.00 to $160.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday. Stifel Nicolaus restated a “buy” rating and issued a $151.00 target price on shares of Agilent Technologies in a research note on Monday, August 26th. Barclays upped their target price on Agilent Technologies from $135.00 to $145.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. Finally, StockNews.com lowered Agilent Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Agilent Technologies has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $144.07.

Agilent Technologies Price Performance

Shares of Agilent Technologies stock opened at $134.35 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.78, a quick ratio of 1.37 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36. The firm has a market capitalization of $38.60 billion, a PE ratio of 27.87, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.89 and a beta of 1.07. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $137.74 and its 200-day moving average price is $137.43. Agilent Technologies has a 12 month low of $124.10 and a 12 month high of $155.35.

Agilent Technologies Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 22nd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $0.248 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. This is a positive change from Agilent Technologies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.24. This represents a $0.99 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.74%. Agilent Technologies’s dividend payout ratio is 19.50%.

Insider Activity at Agilent Technologies

In related news, SVP Dominique Grau sold 9,990 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.00, for a total transaction of $1,448,550.00. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president now directly owns 40,011 shares in the company, valued at $5,801,595. This represents a 19.98 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link.

Agilent Technologies Company Profile

Agilent Technologies, Inc provides application focused solutions to the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Life Sciences and Applied Markets, Diagnostics and Genomics, and Agilent CrossLab. The Life Sciences and Applied Markets segment offers liquid chromatography systems and components; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry systems; gas chromatography systems and components; gas chromatography mass spectrometry systems; inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry instruments; atomic absorption instruments; microwave plasma-atomic emission spectrometry instruments; inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry instruments; raman spectroscopy; cell analysis plate based assays; flow cytometer; real-time cell analyzer; cell imaging systems; microplate reader; laboratory software; information management and analytics; laboratory automation and robotic systems; dissolution testing; and vacuum pumps, and measurement technologies.