Alfa Laval Corporate (ALFVY) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Alfa Laval Corporate AB provides heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling products and solutions worldwide. It operates in three divisions: Energy, Food & Water, and Marine. The company offers oil/gas-fired steam and composite steam boilers, exhaust gas economizer, and ballast water treatment systems, and exhaust gas cleaning products. It also provides sensing and control, cleaning validation, condition monitoring, agitators, tank, powder mixers, fittings, and tubes, as well as wall mounted cleaning nozzles, rotary jet and heads; and tank accessories and covers. In addition, the company offers centrifugal, rotary lobe, three screw, twin screw, and circumferential piston pumps. Further, it provides butterfly, control and check, double seal, diaphragm, double seat, regulating, safety, sampling, shutter, single seat, and ball valves. Additionally, the company offers heat exchanger, tube-in-tube heat exchangers, and process shell-and-tube heat exchangers. Furthermore, it provides finned tube air heat, scraped surface heat exchangers, and various plate heat exchangers, wet surface, and HYAC hybrid air coolers. The company also offers decanters and separator related products. It serves energy, utilities, home, personal care, food, dairy, beverage, marine, transportation, pharmaceutical, biotech, water, and wastewater industries. Alfa Laval Corporate AB was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $42.77 to $43.15
• 50-Day Range: $41.99 to $48.41
• 52-Week Range: $34.87 to $48.46
• Volume: 13,596 shs
• Average Volume: 12,229 shs
• Market Capitalization: $17.80 billion
• P/E Ratio: 27.25
• Dividend Yield: 1.00%
• Price Target: N/A
• Consensus Rating: N/A

Alfa Laval Corporate Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Alfa Laval Corporate scored higher than 45% 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: N/A
• Analyst Rating: N/A

Consensus Rating

There is not enough analysis data for Alfa Laval Corporate.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 7.22%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Alfa Laval Corporate are expected to grow by 7.22% in the coming year, from $1.80 to $1.93 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Alfa Laval Corporate is 27.25, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 125.55.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Alfa Laval Corporate is 27.25, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Construction sector average P/E ratio of about 30.69.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Alfa Laval Corporate has a PEG Ratio of 2.10. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Alfa Laval Corporate has a P/B Ratio of 4.67. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

0.00% of the outstanding shares of Alfa Laval Corporate have been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Alfa Laval Corporate has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 0.4, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Alfa Laval Corporate has recently increased by 77.14%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Yield

Alfa Laval Corporate pays a meaningful dividend of 1.02%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Alfa Laval Corporate does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Alfa Laval Corporate is 27.22%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Alfa Laval Corporate will have a dividend payout ratio of 22.28% next year. This indicates that Alfa Laval Corporate will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

Sustainability and ESG

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

Percentage of Shares Shorted

0.00% of the outstanding shares of Alfa Laval Corporate have been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Alfa Laval Corporate has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 0.4, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Alfa Laval Corporate has recently increased by 77.14%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 1.5 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

News Sentiment

Alfa Laval Corporate has a news sentiment score of 0.76. 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 news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Construction companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 1 news article for Alfa Laval Corporate this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Alfa Laval Corporate insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Institutions

Only 0.01% of the stock of Alfa Laval Corporate is held by institutions.

ALFVY Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have ALFVY shares performed this year?

Alfa Laval Corporate's stock was trading at $39.98 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, ALFVY shares have increased by 7.7% and is now trading at $43.06.
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How were Alfa Laval Corporate's earnings last quarter?

Alfa Laval Corporate AB (OTCMKTS:ALFVY) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The company reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.50 by $0.04. The company earned $1.56 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.74 billion. Alfa Laval Corporate had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.71% and a net margin of 10.39%.

How do I buy shares of Alfa Laval Corporate?

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Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 10/24/2024
• Today: 11/23/2024
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: OTCMKTS
• Sector: Construction
• Industry: Special industry machinery, not elsewhere classified
• Sub-Industry: N/A
• Current Symbol: OTCMKTS:ALFVY
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: 863344
• Web: www.alfalaval.com
• Phone: (464) 636-6500
• Fax: 464-632-3579
• Employees: 21,321
• Year Founded: N/A

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): $1.58
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 27.25
• Forward P/E Ratio: 23.92
• P/E Growth: 2.1
• Net Income: $596.92 million
• Net Margins: 10.39%
• Pretax Margin: 14.19%
• Return on Equity: 17.71%
• Return on Assets: 8.21%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.25
• Current Ratio: 1.38
• Quick Ratio: 0.86

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $6.00 billion
• Price / Sales: 2.97
• Cash Flow: $2.03 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 21.16
• Book Value: $9.23 per share
• Price / Book: 4.67

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 413,326,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: $17.80 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.45