AZN (AZN) Stock

About AZN

AZN is led by CEO Pascal Claude Roland Soriot, employs 94,300 people, headquartered in Cambridge, GB, publicly traded since 1993.

AZN stock trades at $161.96 with a market capitalization of $251.18B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.78, price-to-book of 5.10, price-to-sales of 4.21. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $145.80 and $212.71, and currently trades 23.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.28%.

On profitability, AZN generates a return on equity (ROE) of 21.68% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 16.41%, an operating margin of 23.28%, a net profit margin of 17.02%.

In its most recent fiscal year, AZN reported annual revenue of $58.7B, net profit of $10.3B, revenue has compounded at 17.2% a year over the last five years, profit at 26.3% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64, a current ratio of 0.94, total assets of $114.1B, $5.7B in cash and equivalents.

AZN has an average daily trading volume of 2,774,067 shares, a beta of 0.21 (less volatile than the overall market).