Monday, July 2, 2007

Air Products and Chemicals

Air Products and Chemicals is among the world’s largest Industrial Gases sector businesses in the world. Air Products and Chemicals’s employees generate $796.6M in profits on $9.511B of revenue. Global output in the Industrial Gases business will likely rise substantially over the next 10 years. Long-term economic growth may lift all boats, but Air Products and Chemicals is determined to remain a market leader. Sectoral leadership in the Industrial Gases segment takes dedication and consistency, but management seeks out-sized growth.

Air Products and Chemicals’s ticker symbol APD has recently been trading near $80.89 a share. The Air Products and Chemicals corporate headquarters in Allentown, PA predicts Industrial Gases profits will satisfy shareholders in search of risk-appropriate returns.

The significance of market volume is sometimes ignored, but with a total market capitalization of $17.522B ensures sufficient liquidity. With a beta of 0.87, the company is less volatile than the market as a whole. When the average equity moves lower, Air Products and Chemicals moves less aggressively.

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