What does a current Agilent volatility slip mean for investors?

It appears Agilent will continue to recover much faster as its share price surged up 0.14% today. This firm's current daily volatility is 1.48 percent, with a beta of 0.54 and an alpha of 0.13 over DOW. As many millenniums are trying to avoid measuring and control, it makes sense to go over Agilent a little further and try to understand its current market patterns. We will analyze why Agilent investors may still consider a stake in the business.
Published over a year ago
View all stories for Agilent Technologies | View All Stories
Macroaxis uses a strict editorial review process to publish stories and blog posts. Our publishers support our company and may receive a small commission when the partner links or references are utilized. Commissions do not affect the opinions or evaluations of our editorial team. The information our editors and media partners deliver is confidential and licensed for your sole use as a Macroaxis user. We reserve all rights to the content of this article, and therefore copying or distributing this story in whole or in part is strictly prohibited.

Reviewed by Michael Smolkin

Agilent has accumulated roughly 1.32 B in cash with 810 M of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 4.29. Macroaxis provides advice on Agilent to complement and cross-verify current analyst consensus on Agilent. Our investment recommendation engine determines the company's potential to grow exclusively from the perspective of an investor's current risk tolerance and investing horizon.
Investing in Agilent Technologies, just like investing in any other equity instrument, is characterized by a strong risk-return correlation. High risks mean high returns and low risk means lower expected returns. Risk management is the act of identifying and assessing the potential risk and developing strategies to minimize these risks and earn maximum possible profits while holding Agilent Technologies along with other instruments in the same portfolio. Using conventional technical analysis and fundamental analysis to select individual securities into a portfolio complements risk management and adds value to overall investors' investing strategies.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Agilent Technologies' price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as Agilent Technologies. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against Agilent Technologies' peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, Agilent Technologies' competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in Agilent Technologies.

How important is Agilent Technologies's Liquidity

Agilent Technologies financial leverage refers to using borrowed capital as a funding source to finance Agilent Technologies ongoing operations. It is usually used to expand the firm's asset base and generate returns on borrowed capital. Agilent Technologies financial leverage is typically calculated by taking the company's all interest-bearing debt and dividing it by total capital. So the higher the debt-to-capital ratio (i.e., financial leverage), the riskier the company. Financial leverage can amplify the potential profits to Agilent Technologies' owners, but it also increases the potential losses and risk of financial distress, including bankruptcy, if the firm cannot cover its debt costs. The degree of Agilent Technologies' financial leverage can be measured in several ways, including by ratios such as the debt-to-equity ratio (total debt / total equity), equity multiplier (total assets / total equity), or the debt ratio (total debt / total assets). Please check the breakdown between Agilent Technologies's total debt and its cash.

Agilent Technologies Gross Profit

Agilent Technologies Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Agilent Technologies previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Agilent Technologies Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Agilent Technologies' gross profit and other fundamental indicators for more details.

Agilent Technologies Correlation with Peers

Investors in Agilent can reduce exposure to individual asset risk by holding a diversified portfolio of assets in addition to a long position in Agilent Technologies. Diversification will allow for the same portfolio return with reduced risk. The correlation table of Agilent Technologies and its peers is a two-dimensional matrix that shows the correlation coefficient between pairs of securities Agilent is related in some way. The cells in the table are color-coded to highlight significantly positive and negative relationships. Each cell shows the correlation between one pair of equities and can be used to run pair trading strategies or create efficient portfolios with your current brokerage. Please check volatility of Agilent for more details

Breaking down Agilent Technologies Indicators

Agilent appears to be very steady, given 1 month investment horizon. Agilent secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of 0.2, which signifies that the company had 0.2% of return per unit of risk over the last month. Our standpoint towards foreseeing the volatility of a stock is to use all available market data together with stock specific technical indicators that cannot be diversified away. We have found twenty-eight technical indicators for Agilent, which you can use to evaluate future volatility of the firm. Please makes use of Agilent Downside Deviation of 1.64, risk adjusted performance of 0.2876, and Mean Deviation of 1.04 to double-check if our risk estimates are consistent with your expectations.
Click cells to compare fundamentals   Check Volatility   Backtest Portfolio

Will Agilent pull back in September 2020?

The potential upside is down to 2.54 as of today. As of the 18th of August 2020, Agilent shows the Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.2876, mean deviation of 1.04, and Downside Deviation of 1.64. Agilent technical analysis gives you the methodology to make use of historical prices and volume patterns to determine a pattern that approximates the direction of the firm's future prices. Put another way, you can use this information to find out if the firm will indeed mirror its model of historical prices and volume momentum, or the prices will eventually revert. We were able to analyze and collect data for nineteen technical drivers for Agilent, which can be compared to its rivals. Please confirm Agilent coefficient of variation, jensen alpha, potential upside, as well as the relationship between the variance and maximum drawdown to decide if Agilent is priced correctly, providing market reflects its regular price of 97.51 per share. Given that Agilent has jensen alpha of 0.1346, we suggest you to validate Agilent's prevailing market performance to make sure the company can sustain itself at a future point.

Our Conclusion on Agilent

Whereas some companies under the diagnostics & research industry are still a bit expensive, Agilent may offer a potential longer-term growth to investors. To conclude, as of the 18th of August 2020, our analysis shows that Agilent follows the market closely. The company is overvalued and projects low probability of distress for the next 2 years. However, our final 30 days buy-sell recommendation on the company is Strong Buy.

Building efficient market-beating portfolios requires time, education, and a lot of computing power!

The Portfolio Architect is an AI-driven system that provides multiple benefits to our users by leveraging cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis, and predictive modeling to automate the process of asset selection and portfolio construction, saving time and reducing human error for individual and institutional investors.

Try AI Portfolio Architect

Editorial Staff

This story should be regarded as informational only and should not be considered a solicitation to sell or buy any financial products. Macroaxis does not express any opinion as to the present or future value of any investments referred to in this post. This post may not be reproduced without the consent of Macroaxis LLC. Macroaxis LLC and Raphi Shpitalnik do not own shares of Agilent Technologies. Please refer to our Terms of Use for any information regarding our disclosure principles.

Would you like to provide feedback on the content of this article?

You can get in touch with us directly or send us a quick note via email to editors@macroaxis.com