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Pental is a household & personal products business based in Australia. Pental shares (PTL) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are in Australian dollars. Pental has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $127 million. If you're looking to buy shares, check out the steps below.
How to buy shares in Pental
- Compare share trading platforms. To buy shares listed in Australia, you'll need to sign up to a broker with access to the ASX. Our table can help you choose.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, such as your ID and tax file number. Fund your account with a bank transfer, PayPal or debit card.
- Search for Pental . Find the share by name or ticker symbol: PTL. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Pental reaches your desired price. Look into dollar-cost averaging to spread out your risk, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At today's price, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimise risk through the market's ups and downs.
- Check on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Pental . Optimise your portfolio by tracking how your stock and the business performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that affect your stock.
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Pental stock price (ASX:PTL)
Use our graph to track the performance of PTL stocks over time.Pental shares at a glance
52-week range | $0.3685 - $0.4577 |
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50-day moving average | $0.4068 |
200-day moving average | $0.4022 |
Target price | $0.5 |
PE ratio | 8.6667 |
Dividend yield | $0.029 (6.67%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.045 |
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Is it a good time to buy Pental stock?
The technical analysis gauge below displays real-time ratings for the timeframes you select. However, this is not a recommendation. It represents a technical analysis based on the most popular technical indicators: Moving Averages, Oscillators and Pivots. Finder might not concur and takes no responsibility.
Pental price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the last close of A$0.415
1 week (2022-06-17) | 3.75% |
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1 month (2022-05-27) | 2.47% |
3 months (2022-03-25) | 2.47% |
6 months (2021-12-24) | 5.06% |
1 year (2021-06-25) | 1.22% |
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2 years (2020-06-26) | 22.06% |
3 years (2019-06-27) | 45.61% |
5 years (2017-06-26) | -30.25% |
Is Pental under- or over-valued?
Valuing Pental stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Pental 's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Pental 's P/E ratio
Pental 's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 9x. In other words, Pental shares trade at around 9x 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.
Pental 's EBITDA
Pental 's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $14.7 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Pental 's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Pental financials
Revenue TTM | $127 million |
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Operating margin TTM | 9.02% |
Gross profit TTM | $41.4 million |
Return on assets TTM | 7.59% |
Return on equity TTM | 10.54% |
Profit margin | 5.28% |
Book value | 0.421 |
Market capitalisation | $66.5 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Pental share dividends
Dividend payout ratio: 58% of net profits
Recently Pental has paid out, on average, around 58% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 6.67% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Pental shareholders could enjoy a 6.67% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Pental 's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.029 per share.
Pental 's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 25 February 2022 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Pental 's shares ever split?
Pental 's shares were split on a 1:15 basis on 24 November 2014. So if you had owned 15 shares the day before the split, the next day you would own 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Pental shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1400% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Pental shares which in turn could have impacted Pental 's share price.
Pental share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Pental 's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.3685 up to $0.4577. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while Pental 's is 0.0935. This would suggest that Pental 's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Pental overview
Pental Limited manufactures, markets, and distributes personal, household, and commercial products in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. The company provides soap, laundry, and dishwashing products, as well as stain removers, bleaches, firelighters. It offers products under the AIM, Country Life, Duracell, Huggie, Janola, Jiffy Firelighters, Little Lucifer, Lux, Martha's, Procell, Softly, Sunlight, Velvet, and White King brands. The company was formerly known as Symex Holdings Limited and changed its name to Pental Limited in January 2013. Pental Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
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