Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) plans to make the necessary investments to support implementation of the Administration’s Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative introduced today. Baxter (BAX)’s investments will be scaled in the U.S. to align with the proposed models from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and patient and market dynamics across the adoption curve. Investments are expected to be made accordingly in potential new U.S. facilities, as well as existing sites that make and distribute PD solutions, devices and cassettes. In turn, these investments are expected to create hundreds of high-quality manufacturing, supply chain and engineering jobs.
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 BAX is 0.20%. Institutional ownership refers to the ownership stake in a company that is held by large financial organizations, pension funds or endowments. The Institutional ownership for the BAX is 88.00%.
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 BAX. 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 Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is -83.19%.
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Institutional transactions is the amount of a Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX)’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 BAX is -0.09%.
A Healthcare sector firm, Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) stock climbs 0.88% on Wednesday and when day-trade ended the stock finally concluded at $82.12 and number of shares that changed hands during the day are 2.75 Million. The number of shares BAX stock currently held by all its shareholders are 512.00 and floated shares, the number of shares are available for trading in an open market on last trading day are 509.51. The average volume of shares for 3 months is 2492.20 and BAX stock value has moved between $60.83 – 82.95 in last one year.
The Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX)’s latest earnings date is 7/25/2019. 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 Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is 43.30% and the profit margin is 14.30% and the stock has gained 24.76% in 2019 to date.
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX)’s monthly stock performance is 5.05%, the quarterly performance is 2.56%, the half year performance is calculated as 24.44%. The yearly performance of BAX is 9.98%.
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 Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) weekly volatility is measured as 1.26% and monthly volatility measured as 1.49%.
Return on assets (ROA) is a main indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. BAX return on assets is 9.70%, the return on equity (ROE) of the Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is 18.90%, while the most important return on investment is calculates as a percentage and is typically used for personal financial decisions, and BAX return on investment is 12.00%.
The price to earnings ratio is 32.18, price to sales ratio is 3.79, and price to book ratio is 5.50, price to cash per share ration is 22.02, price to free cash flow is 62.11.
Analysts mean target price for Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is $83.73 while analysts mean recommendation is 2.10. The current share price indicates that stock is -0.82% away from its one year high and is moving 34.51% ahead of its 52-week low. BAX’s distance from 20 day simple moving average is 1.68% and distance from 50-Day simple moving average is 5.53%.
