B Value | B Growth | B Momentum | A VGM
The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.
The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.
| Value Score | A |
|---|---|
| Growth Score | A |
| Momentum Score | A |
| VGM Score | A |
Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.
As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.
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This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.
| Zacks Rank | Definition | Annualized Return |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong Buy | 24.30% |
| 2 | Buy | 18.13% |
| 3 | Hold | 9.74% |
| 4 | Sell | 5.28% |
| 5 | Strong Sell | 2.72% |
| S&P | 500 | 11.39% |
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The Zacks Equity Research reports, or ZER for short, are our in-house, independently produced research reports.
The ever popular one-page Snapshot reports are generated for virtually every single Zacks Ranked stock. It's packed with all of the company's key stats and salient decision making information. Including the Zacks Rank, Zacks Industry Rank, Style Scores, the Price, Consensus & Surprise chart, graphical estimate analysis and how a stocks stacks up to its peers.
The detailed multi-page Analyst report does an even deeper dive on the company's vital statistics. In addition to all of the proprietary analysis in the Snapshot, the report also visually displays the four components of the Zacks Rank (Agreement, Magnitude, Upside and Surprise); provides a comprehensive overview of the company business drivers, complete with earnings and sales charts; a recap of their last earnings report; and a bulleted list of reasons to buy or sell the stock. It also includes an industry comparison table to see how your stock compares to its expanded industry, and the S&P 500.
Researching stocks has never been so easy or insightful as with the ZER Analyst and Snapshot reports.
The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.
An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.
The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.
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Company Summary
AstraZeneca plc, is one of the largest biopharmaceutical companies in the world. AstraZeneca's business can be broken down into separate lines based on therapeutic classes. These include cardiovascular, respiratory, immunology, oncology, rare diseases and other.In July 2021 AstraZeneca closed the acquisition of rare disease drugmaker, Alexion. The acquisition added Alexion's five marketed rare disease products and its pipeline of immune-mediated rare disease candidates.In order to bolster its respiratory portfolio, AstraZeneca acquired rights to Allergan's branded respiratory business in the U.S. and Canada in Mar 2015. The company also acquired Takeda's core respiratory business in May 2016.In June 2007, AstraZeneca acquired biotechnology company MedImmune. In Aug 2011, AstraZeneca sold its Astra Tech business to DENTSPLY. AstraZeneca entered into a number of deals and struck agreements with companies such as FibroGen and Daiichi Sankyo.
General Information
AstraZeneca PLC
1 FRANCIS CRICK AVENUE CAMBRIDGE BIOMEDICAL CAMPUS
CAMBRIDGE, X0 CB2 0AA
Phone: 44-20-3749-5000
Fax: 44-12-2335-2858
Web: http://www.astrazeneca.com
Email: ir@astrazeneca.com
| Industry | Large Cap Pharmaceuticals |
| Sector | Medical |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Last Reported Quarter | 12/31/2024 |
| Next EPS Date | 2/6/2025 |
EPS Information
| Current Quarter EPS Consensus Estimate | 1.06 |
| Current Year EPS Consensus Estimate | 4.11 |
| Estimated Long-Term EPS Growth Rate | 13.60 |
| Next EPS Report Date | 2/6/2025 |
Price and Volume Information
| Zacks Rank |  |
| Yesterday's Close | 66.91 |
| 52 Week High | 87.68 |
| 52 Week Low | 60.47 |
| Beta | 0.46 |
| 20 Day Moving Average | 3,909,746.50 |
| Target Price Consensus | 90.20 |
| 4 Week | 1.91 |
| 12 Week | -11.26 |
| YTD | 1.65 |
| 4 Week | 0.79 |
| 12 Week | -14.05 |
| YTD | -0.30 |
| Shares Outstanding (millions) | 3,101.09 |
| Market Capitalization (millions) | 206,532.73 |
| Short Ratio | NA |
| Last Split Date | 7/27/2015 |
| Dividend Yield | 1.47% |
| Annual Dividend | $0.98 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.26 |
| Change in Payout Ratio | -0.26 |
| Last Dividend Payout / Amount | NA / $0.00 |
Fundamental Ratios
| P/E (F1) | 14.18 |
| Trailing 12 Months | 17.57 |
| PEG Ratio | 1.04 |
| vs. Previous Year | 19.54% |
| vs. Previous Quarter | 5.05% |
| vs. Previous Year | 18.04% |
| vs. Previous Quarter | 4.85% |
| Price/Book | 5.06 |
| Price/Cash Flow | 12.34 |
| Price / Sales | 4.03 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 30.01 |
| 6/30/24 | 29.34 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 11.42 |
| 6/30/24 | 11.15 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 0.93 |
| 6/30/24 | 0.89 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 0.71 |
| 6/30/24 | 0.69 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 23.01 |
| 6/30/24 | 22.92 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 12.68 |
| 6/30/24 | 13.11 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 15.47 |
| 6/30/24 | 15.77 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 13.16 |
| 6/30/24 | 12.77 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 1.77 |
| 6/30/24 | 1.62 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 0.71 |
| 6/30/24 | 0.69 |
| 12/31/24 | NA |
| 9/30/24 | 41.45 |
| 6/30/24 | 40.74 |