Robert W. Baird Raises AMETEK (NYSE:AME) Price Target to $204.00

AMETEK (NYSE:AME) had its target price increased by analysts at Robert W. Baird from $198.00 to $204.00 in a note issued to investors on Monday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “neutral” rating on the technology company’s stock. Robert W. Baird’s price target suggests a potential upside of 0.74% from the company’s previous close.

A number of other research analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. TD Cowen upgraded shares of AMETEK from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $158.00 to $180.00 in a research note on Tuesday, September 2nd. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “buy (b)” rating on shares of AMETEK in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. DA Davidson raised their price target on AMETEK from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, August 1st. Barclays lifted their price target on AMETEK from $200.00 to $205.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised AMETEK from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $211.00.

AMETEK Stock Performance

NYSE:AME opened at $202.51 on Monday. AMETEK has a 52 week low of $145.02 and a 52 week high of $204.15. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $186.73 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $180.89. The company has a quick ratio of 1.04, a current ratio of 1.63 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15. The company has a market cap of $46.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.61, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.64 and a beta of 1.11.

AMETEK (NYSE:AME) last released its earnings results on Thursday, October 30th. The technology company reported $1.89 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.76 by $0.13. The firm had revenue of $1.89 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.81 billion. AMETEK had a return on equity of 16.53% and a net margin of 20.60%.AMETEK’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.66 EPS. AMETEK has set its Q4 2025 guidance at 1.900-1.950 EPS. FY 2025 guidance at 7.320-7.370 EPS. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that AMETEK will post 7.15 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of AMETEK

A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Banco Santander S.A. grew its position in AMETEK by 20.8% in the 1st quarter. Banco Santander S.A. now owns 45,365 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $7,809,000 after buying an additional 7,799 shares during the last quarter. M.D. Sass LLC lifted its stake in shares of AMETEK by 2.1% in the 1st quarter. M.D. Sass LLC now owns 366,994 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $63,174,000 after acquiring an additional 7,666 shares during the period. Raiffeisen Bank International AG boosted its holdings in shares of AMETEK by 16.5% in the first quarter. Raiffeisen Bank International AG now owns 44,647 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $7,607,000 after acquiring an additional 6,318 shares in the last quarter. FORA Capital LLC increased its stake in shares of AMETEK by 103.5% during the first quarter. FORA Capital LLC now owns 5,314 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $915,000 after acquiring an additional 2,703 shares during the period. Finally, Jump Financial LLC raised its holdings in AMETEK by 462.4% during the first quarter. Jump Financial LLC now owns 70,256 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $12,094,000 after purchasing an additional 57,763 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 87.43% of the company’s stock.

AMETEK Company Profile

AMETEK, Inc manufactures and sells electronic instruments and electromechanical devices in the North America, Europe, Asia, and South America, and internationally. The company's EIG segment offers advanced instruments for the process, aerospace, power, and industrial markets; process and analytical instruments for the oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, automation, and food and beverage industries; instruments to the laboratory equipment, ultra-precision manufacturing, medical, and test and measurement markets; power quality monitoring and c devices, uninterruptible power supplies, programmable power and electromagnetic compatibility test equipment, and sensors for gas turbines and dashboard instruments; heavy trucks, instrumentation, and controls for the food and beverage industries; and aircraft and engine sensors, power supplies, embedded computing, monitoring, fuel and fluid measurement, and data acquisition systems for aerospace and defense industry.