Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A) stock price, quote and key numbers
Updated 28 September 2026, 09:52 ET
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A) closed at $172.79 on 25 September 2026, unchanged. That leaves it up 10.4% over a week, up 11.4% over a month and up 38.9% over a year. It is at the top of its 52 week range of $108.35 to $174.77. The median analyst price target of $180 sits 4.2% above the close.
The price
Changes compare dividend and split adjusted closes over trading sessions, so the one year figure is the last close against the close 252 sessions earlier. The 52 week range uses the daily highs and lows of the same window. Read the guide: How to read a stock quote.
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Trend and range
A trades above both its 50 day average of $148.75 and its 200 day average of $132.08, the shape of an uptrend. The 50 day average sits above the 200 day average. Its beta against the S&P 500 over the last year is 0.87, a stock that moves about as much as the market. It is 1.1% below its 52 week high and 59.5% above its 52 week low.
Moving averages smooth the closes of the last 50 and 200 sessions; being above or below them describes the trend, it does not predict it. Beta is how much the stock moved for each move in the S&P 500 over the year. Read the guide: Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta.
What analysts say
In the last 90 days 12 firms recorded 13 actions on A: 13 kept a view. Price targets: 13 raised. The most recent targets from 15 firms run from $150 to $190, with a median of $180, 4.2% above the last close.
| Date | Firm | Action | Price target |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | Wells Fargo | Maintains Overweight | $160.00 to $180.00 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Barclays | Maintains Overweight | $150.00 to $175.00 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Stifel | Maintains Buy | $170.00 to $180.00 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | B of A Securities | Maintains Buy | $155.00 to $180.00 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Citigroup | Maintains Buy | $185.00 to $190.00 |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Goldman Sachs | Maintains Buy | $155.00 to $175.00 |
A target is one firm's guess at the price a year out, and the average runs optimistic. The useful reading is the mood: high targets and a wall of buys mean high expectations. Read the guide: What analyst ratings and price targets tell you.
Earnings
The next report is on the calendar for 23 November 2026 for Q4 2026, with earnings per share expected at $1.73. The last report, on 26 August 2026 for Q3 2026, showed EPS of $1.62 against $1.48 expected, a beat of 9.5%, on revenue of $1.9 billion. Agilent Technologies, Inc. beat the EPS estimate in 6 of its last 7 reported quarters.
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The numbers
Over the trailing twelve months Agilent Technologies, Inc. shows revenue growth of 8.60%, a gross margin of 53.83%, an operating margin of 22.23% and a return on equity of 20.97%.
| Measure | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, TTM | 8.6% | 58th |
| Net income growth, TTM | 18.0% | 56th |
| Gross margin | 53.8% | 67th |
| Operating margin | 22.2% | 83rd |
| Free cash flow margin | 17.2% | 78th |
| Return on equity | 21.0% | 87th |
| Return on assets | 11.0% | 91st |
| Debt to equity | 0.54 | 63rd |
| Current ratio | 2.05 | 69th |
| Effective tax rate | 13.1% | 55th |
The percentile ranks the company against every US company the data covers; a high percentile means most companies score lower.
Margins say how much of each dollar of sales becomes profit, returns say how hard the balance sheet works, and debt to equity says how much of it is borrowed. The valuation ratios, price to earnings and the rest, are in the app on the stock page. Read the guide: The valuation ratios on a stock page.
About Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Sector
- Health Care
- Industry
- Measuring And Control Equipment
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, California
- Chief executive
- Michael R. McMullen
- Employees
- 18,100
- Website
- agilent.com
Agilent Technologies, Inc. provides application focused solutions to the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets. The Life Sciences and Applied Markets segment offers liquid chromatography systems and components. The Diagnostics and Genomics segment provides arrays for DNA mutation detection, genotyping, gene copy number determination, identification of gene rearrangements, DNA methylation profiling, gene expression profiling, next generation sequencing, and genetic data management.
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Learn
- How to read a stock quote
- Reading a price chart from one day to one year
- Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta
- What analyst ratings and price targets tell you
- The valuation ratios on a stock page
- Price alerts, targets and percent moves
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