ADT Inc (ADT) saw downtrend of -0.23% in the recent trading with $8.83 being its most recent. The current price level -0.62% lower than the highest price of $8.89 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 32.28% higher than the lowest price of $6.68 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on ADT appeared in (StockStory) under the title “Q2 Earnings Highs And Lows: ADT (NYSE:ADT) Vs The Rest Of The Specialized Consumer Services Stocks”.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 4 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.33 for the stock.
ADT Inc Earnings – What Happened With ADT
Coming around sales and income figures on ADT Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. ADT Inc (ADT) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 17.23% for net revenue.
ADT – ADT Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of ADT Inc (NYSE:ADT)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.17 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. ADT Inc (ADT) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 17.23% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.2.
ADT Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 777.96 million. ADT does have institutional investors; and they hold 71.81% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, APOLLO MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS, L.P. was the top most holder in ADT Inc (NYSE:ADT) with an ownership of 423.55 million shares of the company or 46.9039 of the stake worth $3.22 billion. The filing also reveals STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 14.7653 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $1.01 billion for having 133.33 million shares in hand.
VANGUARD GROUP INC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 4.0972 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 553.0 institutions which have possession in ADT’s shares.
Key Metrics for ADT
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, ADT Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 2.16.
