News Spotlight: Genuine Parts Company (NYSE:GPC)

Genuine Parts Company (NYSE:GPC) stock observed trading -14.63% off 52-week high price. On the other end, the stock has been noted 8.03% away from low price over the last 52-weeks. The stock disclosed a move of -2.95% away from 50 day moving average and -3.63% away from 200 day moving average. Moving closer, we can see that shares have been trading -3.49% off 20-day moving average. It has market cap of $14302.06M and dividend yield of 3.10%.

On Aug.19, 2019, Genuine Parts Company (NYSE:GPC) released that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of seventy-six and one-quarter cents ($0.7625) per share on the Company’s common stock.

The dividend is payable October 1, 2019 to shareholders of record September 6, 2019.

About Genuine Parts Company

Genuine Parts Company is a distributor of automotive replacement parts in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium.  The Company also distributes industrial replacement parts and electrical specialty materials in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia through its Industrial Parts Group.  S.P. Richards Company, the Business Products Group, distributes a variety of business products in the U.S. and in Canada.  Genuine Parts Company had 2018 revenues of $18.7 billion.  The USA based company Genuine Parts Company moved with change of 0.45% to $98.35 with the total traded volume of 475670 shares in recent session versus to an average volume of 787.11K. The stock was observed in the 5 days activity at 2.66%. The one month performance of stock was -4.37%. GPC’s shares are at -4.10% for the quarter and driving a 0.76% return over the course of the past year and is now at 2.43% since this point in 2018.  Right now the stock beta is 0.92. The average volatility for the week and month was at 1.36% and 1.52% respectively. There are 145.42M shares outstanding and 141.87M shares are floated in market.

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