Halma (HLMA) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Halma plc, together its subsidiaries, provides technology solutions in the safety, health, and environmental markets in the United States, Mainland Europe, the United Kingdom, the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Safety, Environmental & Analysis, and Healthcare. The Safety segment provides products that protect people, assets and infrastructure, and electrical systems which is used in public and commercial spaces and in industrial and logistics operations. This segment serves Fire Safety, Power Safety, Industrial Safety, and Urban Safety markets. The Environmental & Analysis segment offers optical, optoelectronic, and spectral imaging systems; environmental monitoring; analysis of air quality, gases, and water; detection of hazardous gases; and water analysis & treatment systems. It serves the optical analysis, water analysis and treatment, and environmental monitoring markets. The Healthcare segment provides components, devices and systems that provide information and analytics to understand patient health and make decisions across the continuum of care; technologies and solutions to enable in-vitro diagnostic systems and life-science discoveries and development; and technologies that enable treatment across clinical specialties, as well as critical fluidic components used by medical diagnostics and original equipment manufacturers. This segment serves the life sciences, health assessment and analytics, and therapeutic solutions market. The company was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 2,654 to 2,725
• 50-Day Range: 2,466 to 2,655
• 52-Week Range: 2,098 to 2,765
• Volume: 385,438 shs
• Average Volume: 825,258 shs
• Market Capitalization: £10.16 billion
• P/E Ratio: 3,794.37
• Dividend Yield: 0.82%
• Price Target: GBX 2,525
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Halma Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Halma scored higher than 6% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.2 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Halma has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.33, and is based on 1 buy rating, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Halma has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Halma is 3,794.37, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 116.99.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Halma is 3,794.37, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Industrials sector average P/E ratio of about 509.35.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Halma has a PEG Ratio of 2.93. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Halma has a P/B Ratio of 5.86. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for HLMA.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Halma has a dividend yield of 0.87%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Halma does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Halma is 3,098.59%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: N/A
• Environmental Score: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for HLMA.

News and Social Media

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.34

News Sentiment

Halma has a news sentiment score of 0.34. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.46 average news sentiment score of Industrials companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 17 news articles for Halma this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Halma insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought GBX 0 in company stock and sold £1,324,000 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 2.20% of the stock of Halma is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

55.55% of the stock of Halma is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

HLMA Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have HLMA shares performed this year?

Halma's stock was trading at GBX 2,284 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, HLMA shares have increased by 18.0% and is now trading at GBX 2,694.
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How do I buy shares of Halma?

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What other stocks do shareholders of Halma own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Halma investors own include Halma (HLMAF), Barclays (BARC), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Alibaba Group (BABA), Citigroup (C), Diageo (DGE) and GSK (GSK).

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Conglomerates
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: LON:HLMA
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.halma.com
• Phone: +44-1494-721111
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 8,000
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: GBX 2,525
• High Stock Price Target: GBX 2,650
• Low Stock Price Target: GBX 2,400
• Potential Upside/Downside: -6.3%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.33
• Research Coverage: 3 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): GBX 0.71
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 3,794.37
• Forward P/E Ratio: 29.75
• P/E Growth: 2.93
• Net Income: £268.80 million
• Net Margins: 13.21%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 16.12%
• Return on Assets: 8.13%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 45.83
• Current Ratio: 2.45
• Quick Ratio: 1.51

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £2.03 billion
• Price / Sales: 5.01
• Cash Flow: GBX 70.85 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 38.02
• Book Value: GBX 460 per share
• Price / Book: 5.86

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 377,190,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £10.16 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.53