Air Products and Chemicals, Inc (APD) Stock Analysis
Range Bound setup
Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $299.17: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.6/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.73; Below-average business quality.
Air Products and Chemicals is an industrial gases company producing atmospheric gases, hydrogen, helium, CO2, and specialty gases for refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, and clean energy industries globally through five regional segments. Regional industrial gases sales... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $299.17: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.6/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.73; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: RSI 52 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Score 4.6/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/7 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: moderate.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHSuppliercrude helium suppliers10-K Item 1A: 'Our supply of crude helium for purification and resale is largely dependent upon natural gas production by crude helium suppliers.'
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Cyclical trough — margins compressed or negative. Profitability typically recovers with the cycle, but floor fires on current data.static
Growth below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $299.17: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.6/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.73; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: RSI 52 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Prior stop was $289.04. Score 4.6/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $301.14 (+0.4% upside). Prior stop was $289.04. Stop-loss: $289.04.
Concentration risk — Supplier: crude helium suppliers; Target reached (-4.7% upside); Quality below floor (3.1 < 4.0).
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 21.4). TrendMatrix value score: 4.9/10. Verdict: Sell.
29 analysts cover APD with a consensus score of 3.8/5. Average price target: $318.
What does Air Products and Chemicals, Inc do?Air Products and Chemicals is an industrial gases company producing atmospheric gases, hydrogen, helium, CO2, and...
Air Products and Chemicals is an industrial gases company producing atmospheric gases, hydrogen, helium, CO2, and specialty gases for refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, and clean energy industries globally through five regional segments. Regional industrial gases sales constituted over 90% of consolidated sales in fiscal years 2025, 2024, and 2023, with approximately 60% of sales from customers outside the U.S.