For most investors, how much a stock’s price changes over time is important. Not only can it impact your investment portfolio, but it can also help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.

The fear of missing out, or FOMO, also plays a factor in investing, especially with particular tech giants, as well as popular consumer-facing stocks.

What if you’d invested in Eaton ETN ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to ETN for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?

Eaton’s Business In-Depth

With that in mind, let’s take a look at Eaton’s main business drivers.

Dublin, Ireland-based Eaton Corporation plc is a diversified power management company and a global technology leader in electrical components and systems. It sells products in more than 175 countries and has in excess of 85,000 employees. The company was founded in 1911.

Eaton’s current reportable segments are Electrical Americas, Electrical Global, Aerospace, Vehicle and eMobility.

The Electrical Americas segment includes sales contracts that are primarily for electrical and industrial components, power distribution and assemblies, residential products, single and three-phase power quality, wiring devices, circuit protection, utility power distribution, power reliability equipment, as well as services that are primarily produced and sold in North and South America. The Electrical Global segment consists of the same activities as mentioned in Electrical Americas but is primarily produced and sold outside of North and South America.

The Vehicle segment includes the Truck and Automotive subsegments. The truck segment designs, manufactures and markets powertrain systems and other components for commercial vehicle markets. The aerospace segment is a supplier of aerospace fuel and hydraulic and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use.

The eMobility segment focuses on two technologies within electric vehicles, namely Power electronics & conversion and Power distribution & circuit protection.

Eaton’s segments — Electrical Americas, Electrical Global, Aerospace, Vehicle and eMobility — contributed 44.8%, 25.4%, 15%, 12% and 2.8%, respectively, to 2023 revenues.

Bottom Line

Anyone can invest, but building a successful investment portfolio takes a combination of a few things: research, patience, and a little bit of risk. So, if you had invested in Eaton a decade ago, you’re probably feeling pretty good about your investment today.

According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in October 2014 would be worth $5,177.51, or a gain of 417.75%, as of October 4, 2024, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.

The S&P 500 rose 189.65% and the price of gold increased 114.20% over the same time frame in comparison.

Going forward, analysts are expecting more upside for ETN.

Eaton benefits from its research and development work that allows to develop new products. Eaton is aided by rising demand from the new AI data center and contributions from its organic assets. Eaton is expanding via acquisitions and its strategy to manufacture in the region of its end market has helped the company to reduce expenses. Reindustrialization and megatrends will create more opportunities for Eaton. Its shares have outperformed the industry in the past year. Our model projects revenues to increase in 2024-26 period. Yet, Eaton’s global operations expose it to unpredictable currency translation, cyber security threats, changes in tax rates and security breaches, which might impact operations. The shortage of raw materials and supplier insolvencies might impact production and operations.

Shares have gained 14.43% over the past four weeks and there have been 6 higher earnings estimate revisions for fiscal 2024 compared to none lower. The consensus estimate has moved up as well.

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