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Ansell Limited is a medical instruments & supplies business based in Australia. Ansell shares (ANN) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are listed in Australian Dollars. Ansell has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.6 billion.
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Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Ansell's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was $40.86, which is 22.88% up on its pre-crash value of $31.51 and 102.38% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as $20.19.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Ansell shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $666.04 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $1,269.93.
52-week range | $19.9889 - $43.17 |
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50-day moving average | $35.5479 |
200-day moving average | $37.9336 |
Target price | $19.3 |
PE ratio | 28.5417 |
Dividend yield | $0.71 (2.07%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.2 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of A$40.86 on 2020-10-22
1 week (2021-01-08) | 16.64% |
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1 month (2020-12-16) | 19.47% |
3 months (2020-10-16) | 1.26% |
6 months (2020-07-16) | 4.82% |
1 year (2020-01-15) | 32.62% |
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2 years (2019-01-15) | 79.92% |
3 years (2018-01-15) | 71.46% |
5 years (2016-01-15) | 109.54% |
Valuing Ansell stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Ansell's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Ansell's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 29x. In other words, Ansell shares trade at around 29x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Ansell's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $252.1 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Ansell's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $1.6 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 13.62% |
Gross profit TTM | $632.7 million |
Return on assets TTM | 5.69% |
Return on equity TTM | 11.38% |
Profit margin | 9.84% |
Book value | 10.826 |
Market capitalisation | $4.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 40.73% of net profits
Recently Ansell has paid out, on average, around 40.73% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.07% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Ansell shareholders could enjoy a 2.07% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Ansell's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.71 per share.
While Ansell's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Ansell may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 31 August 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").
Ansell's shares were split on a 1:5 basis on 15 April 2002. So if you had owned 5 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ansell shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 400% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ansell shares which in turn could have impacted Ansell's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Ansell's shares have ranged in value from as little as $19.9889 up to $43.17. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Ansell's is 0.5128. This would suggest that Ansell's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Ansell Limited designs, develops, and manufactures protection solutions in the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, and North America. It operates in two segments, Healthcare and Industrial. The Healthcare segment manufactures and markets solutions comprising surgical gloves, single use and examination gloves, and clean and sterile gloves and garments, as well as consumables used by healthcare, life sciences, and industrial workers for a range of customers, including hospitals, surgical centers, dental surgeries, veterinary clinics, first responders, manufacturers, auto repair shops, chemical plants, laboratories, and pharmaceutical companies. The Industrial segment manufactures and markets high-performance hand and chemical protective clothing solutions for a range of industrial applications, including automotive, chemical, metal fabrication, machinery and equipment, food, construction, mining, oil and gas, and first responders. The company was formerly known as Pacific Dunlop Limited and changed its name to Ansell Limited in 2002. Ansell Limited was founded in 1893 and is based in Richmond, Australia.
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