Is West Pharmaceutical stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
Right now our advanced algorithms say:
Do the analyst corps agree?
Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, West Pharmaceutical pays dividends. Last time was Wednesday 7th of August 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Wednesday 31st of July 2024 were paid $0.2 per share. Over the last 151 times between 1987 and 2024, West Pharmaceutical has paid $21.54 with an average of $0.14 per share.
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We cannot find data for West Pharmaceutical 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Monday 9th of September 2019 when the price was $145.45, you would have made a profit of $151.79 per share or 104.36%
Yes, the average daily trading liquidity for West Pharmaceutical is $615 330 thousand. You should therefore be able to get in and out of your positions relatively fast.
West Pharmaceutical has little of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at lower risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a high cash flow to debt ratio of 2.47, the company's ability to pay off the debt is good. West Pharmaceutical has a good net profit margin of 19.42% and should have high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for West Pharmaceutical to be low [0.1 of 1]
US inflation for July 2024 was 0.15%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.92%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 3.72 and is down -0.95 over the last 30 days.