Why Koninklijke Philips Stock Jumped 14% Today
PHGPhilips(PHG) The Motley Fool·2024-07-29 22:47

Would you pay 22 times free cash flow for a stock growing at only 4%?Koninklijke Philips (PHG 12.98%) stock surged 14.5% through 10:05 a.m. ET Monday after the company reported strong earnings this morning.Analysts had forecast the Dutch medical devices company would earn 0.27pershareonsalesof0.27 per share on sales of 4.8 billion, according to data from Yahoo! Finance. Philips' sales of 4.5 billion euros roughly matched that prediction. Net earnings were 452 million euros -- about 0.48 cents per share -- which works out to a ...