Investor’s Toolkit: Key Ratios for Assessing Cabot Corp (CBT)’s Performance

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Cabot Corp (NYSE: CBT) closed the day trading at $92.81 down -2.27% from the previous closing price of $94.97. In other words, the price has decreased by -$2.27 from its previous closing price. On the day, 0.52 million shares were traded. CBT stock price reached its highest trading level at $96.39 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $92.6.

Ratios:

For a better understanding of CBT, let’s look at its different ratios. It provided that stocks Price–to–Cash (P/C) ratio for the trailing twelve months (TTM) is standing at 22.64 whereas its Price-to-Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) for the term is 11.19. For the most recent quarter (mrq), Quick Ratio is recorded 1.36 and its Current Ratio is at 2.08. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 0.87 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 0.82.

On March 27, 2024, Mizuho started tracking the stock assigning a Buy rating and target price of $104.Mizuho initiated its Buy rating on March 27, 2024, with a $104 target price.

Insider Transactions:

The insider trade also gives investors a glimpse into the future direction of stock prices, which can be beneficial to investors. A recent insider transaction in this stock occurred on Nov 13 ’24 when Zhu Jeff Ji sold 14,566 shares for $113.25 per share. The transaction valued at 1,649,600 led to the insider holds 69,449 shares of the business.

Dumont Lisa M sold 865 shares of CBT for $96,655 on Nov 13 ’24. The VP, Controller & CAO now owns 9,742 shares after completing the transaction at $111.74 per share. On Nov 11 ’24, another insider, Kalkstein Hobart, who serves as the Executive Vice President of the company, sold 34,759 shares for $115.23 each. As a result, the insider received 4,005,182 and left with 50,627 shares of the company.

Valuation Measures:

Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, CBT now has a Market Capitalization of 5048325632 and an Enterprise Value of 6238609920. As of this moment, Cabot’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for their current fiscal year is 13.71, and their Forward P/E ratio for the next fiscal year is 11.02. The expected Price-to-Earnings-to-Growth (PEG) calculation for the next 5 years is 0.90. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 1.26 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 3.54. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 1.562 whereas that against EBITDA is 7.988.

Stock Price History:

Over the past 52 weeks, CBT has reached a high of $117.46, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $70.63. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is -15.02%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be -7.83%.

Shares Statistics:

Over the past 3-months, CBT traded about 385.32K shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, CBT traded about 372170 shares per day. A total of 54.30M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 53.57M. Insiders hold about 1.52% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 95.94% stake in the company. Shares short for CBT as of 1732838400 were 2288875 with a Short Ratio of 5.94, compared to 1730332800 on 2568509. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 2288875 and a Short% of Float of 5.6399997.

Dividends & Splits

CBT’s forward annual dividend rate is 1.69, up from 1.66 a year ago. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.017479204The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 2.5.

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