Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD)

Last Closing Price: 233.02 (2024-04-18)

Company Description

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. makes industrial gases as well as a variety of polymer and performance chemicals. It also supplies processing equipment. Air Products' reporting segments are as follows: Industrial Gases - Americas, Industrial Gases Europe, Middle East, and Africa/EMEA and Industrial Gases Asia segments include the results of the company's regional industrial gases businesses. These businesses sell atmospheric gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and argon and processes gases to a number of industries. Process gases such as carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, etc. are produced by other methods that exclude air separation. The largest cost component of the atmospheric gases is electricity. The Industrial Gases Global division designs and manufactures cryogenic and gas-processing equipment for air separation. The Corporate and other segment includes Air Products' liquefied natural gas sale of equipment business and helium storage and distribution vessel sale of equipment business.

Financials, Fundamental Metrics & Ratios
Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $12.60B
Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $2.30B
PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) 18.50
PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 19.59
PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) 2.52
Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 4.10
Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) 3.16
Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) 12.97
Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 23.50%
Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 18.82%
Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) 16.84%
Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) 8.24%
Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 1.81
Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 1.58
Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 0.74
Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) 12.92
Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $70.50
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $2.82
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $11.51
Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) $10.48
Stock
Exchange NYSE
Sector Basic Materials
Industry Specialty Chemicals
Common Shares Outstanding 222.30M
Free Float 221.39M
Market Capitalization $50.91B
Average Volume (Last 20 Days) 1.27M
Beta (Past 60 Months) 0.81
Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) 0.41%
Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) 81.66%
Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) $7.08
Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) 3.09%