DS Smith Plc is a multinational group of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with a current price of 349.2 GBP and a 1.0124% change in the last 24 hours. The 52-week high is 377.9 GBP, and the 52-week low is 238.1 GBP. The company has an average volume of 4 million shares traded daily, with 13 billion shares outstanding and a market capitalization of 48 bln GBP as of 3 February 2023.
The market capitalization has seen an increase over the last three weeks, with 50.8 bln GBP on 3 February 2023, up from 49.2 bln GBP on 1 February 2023 and 501.1 bln GBP on 2 February 2023 respectively . The 50-day moving average for share price was 338.86 GBP as at 3 February 2023, rising from 299.491 GBP at the 200-day moving average as at 2 January 2023; this indicates that there has been positive upward momentum in recent months for the stock price despite occasional fluctuations in the interim period since then which may indicate healthy investor sentiment towards the stock in general terms.
The Earnings Per Share (EPS) ratio stands at 27, giving it a Price-Earnings (PE) Ratio of 12.93; this indicates that investors are not paying too much for potential earnings growth based on historic data, given that it is lower than most peers in its sector as well as being within industry-wide averages for similar stocks generally considered to be undervalued compared to their peers overall .
Overall this shows that DS Smith Plc’s financial situation appears to be strong based on its current market capitalization, share prices and EPS/PE Ratios; this implies that investors are confident about its prospects going forward and that it should therefore benefit from a healthy cash flow given its current size and position in the marketplace
