How to buy Dentsply Sirona (XRAY:NASDAQ) stocks

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Dentsply Sirona is a medical instruments & supplies business based in the US. Dentsply Sirona shares (XRAY.US) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $24.01 – a decrease of 1.11% over the previous day. Dentsply Sirona employs 15,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $3.9 billion.

How to buy shares in Dentsply Sirona

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Is it a good time to buy Dentsply Sirona stock?

Review technicals and fundamentals to help you determine if now's a good time for you to invest.

Technical analysis

View Dentsply Sirona's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.

Use our graph to track the performance of XRAY stock over time.

Historical closes compared with the last close of $24.01

1 week (2024-11-13)	-1.56%
1 month (2024-10-20)	-7.41%
3 months (2024-08-20)	-8.54%
6 months (2024-05-20)	-20.48%
1 year (2023-11-20)	-22.90%
2 years (2022-11-20)	-17.82%
3 years (2021-11-20)	-55.98%
5 years (2019-11-20)	-51.71%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Dentsply Sirona under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Dentsply Sirona P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.

Dentsply Sirona's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 0x. In other words, Dentsply Sirona's stocks trade at around 0x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Dentsply Sirona's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.845. A PEG ratio below 1 can be interpreted as meaning the shares are not overvalued given the current rate of growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Dentsply Sirona's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Dentsply Sirona's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $612 million ($1 CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of Dentsply Sirona's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Frequently asked questions

Dentsply Sirona's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 17 July 2006. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Dentsply Sirona shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Dentsply Sirona shares which in turn could have impacted Dentsply Sirona's share price.
It's as easy to sell Dentsply Sirona as it is to buy! Here's how to sell Dentsply Sirona stocks that you already own.
1. Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
2. Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
3. Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
4. Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
5. Sell your Dentsply Sirona shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold

Dentsply Sirona financials

Revenue TTM	$3.9 billion
Operating margin TTM	6.94%
Gross profit TTM	$2.1 billion
Return on assets TTM	2.32%
Return on equity TTM	-13.99%
Profit margin	-10.59%
Book value	$12.53
Market capitalisation	$3.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

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