Flatten the curve

Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD)

It’s off to the races as investors and investment managers alike try to find some protection against the current downtrend in the COVID-19 environment. With positive yields few and far between, Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) might be one company to watch.

Besides its attractive 2.83% dividend yield coupled with steady insider purchases of company stock, Air Products & Chemicals might deliver good value over the long term.

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Fundamentals

The latest earnings released on the 24^th of January 2020 showed a surprise beat in earnings per share (EPS) by $0.06 and a miss on YoY revenue expectations by $32.18 million. The company did, however, issue downside guidance for FQ2 with EPS at $2.20 vs $2.26 estimated by analysts. The full-year guidance remains in check with the market consensus for EPS around $9.44.

Air Products & Chemicals has also signed a new contract for its integrated oxy-fuel combustion solution with Techpack Solutions. This will be the third project to support Techpack, the largest packaging materials manufacturer in South Korea. The latest project will support Techpack to convert its furnace from air-fuel to oxy-fuel for enhanced sustainability and competitiveness.

Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) share overview:

• Sector: Materials
• Market Cap of $42.33 Billion
• Dividend Yield: 2.58 %
• Price/Earnings (LTM): 22x
• Price/Book: 3.50
• Next Earnings: 22 April 2020
• 52 Week Range low of $176.73 and $256.01 per share high.

Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) has declared a $1.34 per share dividend and the stock will go ex-dividend on the 31^st of March 2020 with the dividend payable date scheduled for the 11^th of May 2020. For more details on other company’s dividends expected over the week, head on over to the Nasdaq Dividend Calendar.

Chart Life

The price action is finding significant support at the $166.79 per share price level and needs to close above the $206.29 resistance level to negate the downtrend. We might see more downside on the cards if the support at $166.79 does not hold.

Informed decisions

When looking at the latest EasyResearch note on the perspective, we might still be inclined to wait before assuming all is well in the world. Looking at a bear market cycle, the recent rally might even be a natural part of a bear market cycle. The U.S market still needs to move much higher to negate the negative outlook, but in between the madness, there is always opportunity.

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Portfolio particulars

• Portfolio Neutral (Current)*
• Portfolio Buy opportunity: Neutral**
• WhatsTheBeef long term target price: Neutral.

Know your company: Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD)

• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is an American international corporation whose principal business is selling gases and chemicals for industrial uses.
• Air Products serves customers in technology, energy, healthcare, food and industrial markets worldwide with atmospheric industrial gases (mainly oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen and carbon dioxide), process and speciality gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates.
• Air Products also provided the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel for the Space Shuttle External Tank. Air Products has had a working relationship with NASA for 50 years and has supplied the liquid hydrogen used for every Space Shuttle launch and the Mercury and Apollo missions.

Sources – EasyResearch, SeekingAlpha, Zacks Research, Yahoo finance, KOYFIN, Bloomberg, Wikipedia

Take note: share price, company data was taken on 25/03/2020.

Chart source - Koyfin

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