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Alcon Inc ALC Stock Quote

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XSWX: ALC

Last close prices updated as of Jun 05, 2023, 5:31 PM CET | CHF
  • Last Close 72.10
  • Sector Healthcare
  • Industry Medical Instruments & Supplies
  • Investment Style Large Growth
  • Day Range 71.82  –  72.68
  • Year Range 55.24  –  74.88
  • Market Cap 35.3604 Bil
  • Volume / Avg 526,116.0 /  1.3 Mil
  • Price / Sales 4.41
  • Price / Book 1.98
  • Forward Div Yield 0.29%
  • Trailing Div Yield 0.29%

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Key Statistics ALC

Company Profile ALC

Business Description

Alcon is one of the leading visioncare companies in the world. Following nine years as a Novartis subsidiary, it was spun off as a public company in April 2019. Alcon operates in two segments: visioncare and surgical. Visioncare comprises contact lenses, lenscare solutions, and a suite of ocular health products. With brands like Dailies, Total1, and Air Optix, Alcon controls one fourth of the U.S. contact lens market. Surgical comprises intraocular lenses, ophthalmic surgical equipment, and consumables used during surgeries. Its main products include Centurion, a phacoemulsification device used during cataract surgeries, and a portfolio of IOLs including PanOptix and Vivity. Alcon has one of the largest installed bases of eye surgical equipment in the world.

Contact
Chemin de Blandonnet 8, Royce Bedward, Vernier
Geneva, 1214, CHE
Industry Medical Instruments & Supplies
Employees 25,178

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Price
71.90355.77110.35
Currency
CHFUSDEUR
Change
−$0.20 (0.28%) −$0.71 (0.20%) −$1.25 (1.12%)
Market Cap
35.36 Bil17.58 Bil9.87 Bil
Industry
Medical Instruments & Supplies Medical Instruments & Supplies Medical Instruments & Supplies
Sector
Healthcare
Healthcare
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FAQs for Alcon Inc Stock

Yes. ALC has a forward dividend yield of 0.29%. See ALC’s full dividends and stock split history on the Dividend tab.
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ALC’s market cap is 35.36 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares. It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.

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ALC’s stock style is Large Growth.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns. Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.

High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.

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ALC’s price/sales is 4.20.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from a particular company’s sales or revenues.

ALC’s price/forward earnings is 109.36.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates. The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.

ALC’s price/book is 1.94.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets, based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.

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ALC’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
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