Afterhours Laggard: Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP)

The insider ownership percentage is the key indicator, can be used by investors, to measure the outlook of senior management has on their company. Insider ownership for the AAP stock is 0.40%.

Insider trading is the buying or selling of any publicly traded company’s stock and this can be done by someone who has non-public, material information about that AAP. Insider trading can be illegal or legal depending on when the insider makes the trade. It is illegal when the material information is still non-public. The insider transactions of the company (6-month change in insider ownerships) for the Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) is 0.00%.
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Institutional ownership is the amount of a Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP)’s available stock owned by mutual or pension funds, insurance companies, investment firms, private foundations, endowments or other large entities that actually manage the funds on the behalf of others, so its an interesting element for the traders to note it, and the Institutional ownership for the AAP is 0.30%.

U.S traded Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) stock advanced 1.59% on Monday and when day-trade ended the stock finally concluded at $156.59 and number of shares that changed hands during the day are 1.15 Million. The number of shares AAP stock currently held by all its shareholders are 71.79 and floated shares, the number of shares are available for trading in an open market on last trading day are 71.50. The average volume of shares for 3 months is 1108.99 and AAP stock value has moved between $133.84 – 186.42 in last one year.

The Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP)’s latest earnings date is 5/22/2019. The Gross margin is the difference between the revenue and the cost of goods sold (COGS), divided by revenue. In other words, Gross Margin is a percentage value, while Gross Profit is a monetary value. The valuable gross margin for Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) is 44.10% and the profit margin is 4.40% and the stock has gained -0.55% in 2019 to date.

U.S. traded shares of Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP)’s monthly stock performance is 1.03%, the quarterly performance is -9.81%, the half year performance is calculated as 0.73%. The yearly performance of AAP is 15.90%.

The higher the volatility, the riskier the security. For example, when the stock market rises and falls more than one percent over a sustained period of time, it is called a “volatile” market, if the stock price stays relatively stable, the security has low volatility. The Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) weekly volatility is measured as 2.49% and monthly volatility measured as 2.05%.

Return on assets (ROA) is a main indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. AAP return on assets is 4.50%, the return on equity (ROE) of the Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) is 11.90%, while the most important return on investment is calculates as a percentage and is typically used for personal financial decisions, and AAP return on investment is 10.20%.

The price to earnings ratio is 25.54, price to sales ratio is 1.16, and price to book ratio is 3.17, price to cash per share ration is 20.92, price to free cash flow is 18.03.

Analysts mean target price for Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) is $192.94 while analysts mean recommendation is 2.10. The current share price indicates that stock is -15.88% away from its one year high and is moving 17.37% ahead of its 52-week low. AAP’s distance from 20 day simple moving average is 2.32% and distance from 50-Day simple moving average is -1.25%.