Royal Bank Of Canada (NYSE:RY) saw a downside of -0.48% to close Friday at $89.14 after subtracting -$0.43 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 659,180 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $92.10 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 716,620 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 941,060.
RY’s 1-month performance is 0.32% or $0.86 on its low of $87.46 reached on 09/08/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $83.63 and high of $104.72, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/09/23. YTD, RY has lost -5.19% or -$4.88 and has reached a new high 17 times. However, the current price is down -14.88% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
RY stock has a beta of 0.82. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.55 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.56, with the price to cash flow ratio at 1.99.
As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending July 30 was 0.43, while the total debt to equity was 3.48. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $17.65 billion against revenue of $31.67 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending July 30 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Analysts expected RY to announce $2 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $2.11, representing a 5.50% surprise.
Let’s look briefly at Royal Bank Of Canada (RY) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 September was 38.54% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 13.66%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $90.46, reflecting a -2.59% or -$2.37 change from its current price. RY is currently trading -1.30% above its 20-day SMA, -10.13% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -8.27% and SMA200 by-9.28%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 53.59% and 67.10% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.18. The RSI (14) points at 40.29%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 36.21% with the period’s ATR at 1.22. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.55 and 0.13 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Royal Bank Of Canada (NYSE: RY), CIBC downgraded it to a Neutral rating. They previously had a Sector outperform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for RY stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate RY as a “sell,”, while 3 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 3 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is RY’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $90.39 and a high of $100.00, with their median price target at $96.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Royal Bank Of Canada (RY) stock is $95.46.
