Pembina Pipeline Corporation (NYSE:PBA) saw an upside of 0.86% to close Friday at $30.33 after adding $0.26 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 802,200 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $31.39 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 882,560 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 814,432.
PBA’s 1-month performance is 0.03% or $0.08 on its low of $29.84 reached on 08/23/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $29.59 and high of $36.93, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/18/23. YTD, PBA has lost -10.66% or -$3.62 and has reached a new high 8 times. However, the current price is down -17.87% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
PBA stock has a beta of 1.26. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.26 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.65, with the price to cash flow ratio at 10.34.
Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.52, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.62. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.68, while the total debt to equity was 0.72. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 24.49%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 25.99% while for the period ending June 29, Pembina Pipeline Corporation’s operating margin was 21.06%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $2.4 billion against revenue of $9.23 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 14.34% to $1.14 billion, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected PBA to announce $0.43 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.45, representing a 4.70% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $545.17 million. PBA stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 11.32 billion, with total debt at $11.25 billion.
Let’s look briefly at Pembina Pipeline Corporation (PBA) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 September was 40.05% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 14.09%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $30.56, reflecting a -2.16% or -$0.67 change from its current price. PBA is currently trading +0.83% above its 20-day SMA, -7.84% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -3.22% and SMA200 by-13.79%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 20.10% and 30.48% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.48. The RSI (14) points at 43.20%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 22.06% with the period’s ATR at 0.48. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.39 and -0.39 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Pembina Pipeline Corporation (NYSE: PBA), Stifel launched coverage with a Buy rating. Analysts offering their rating for PBA stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate PBA as a “sell,”, while 6 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 9 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is PBA’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $34.84 and a high of $42.87, with their median price target at $37.42. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Pembina Pipeline Corporation (PBA) stock is $37.82.
