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Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APD) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Air Products makes industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and hydrogen, and builds the equipment that separates and liquefies them. It supplies refining, chemical, metals, electronics, energy, medical and food industries across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for APD, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 44/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-05
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 73th percentile of the window, -21.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-04
  • Sovereign pressure Index -2.05 · down 2.95 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-05
How it trades on rate days beta 0.15 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How APD has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.15 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Air Products and Chemicals Inc moved 0.15% on average · correlation 0.06 · higher than 14% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.43 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.16% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.86% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Specialty Chemicals · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Chemicals · US

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against APD on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Air Products and Chemicals Inc

APD in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Air Products makes industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and hydrogen, and builds the equipment that separates and liquefies them. It supplies refining, chemical, metals, electronics, energy, medical and food industries across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The company is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and has operated since 1940.
Where it sits in the stack
Air Products holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; the diary places it in the Basic Materials sector, within the specialty and industrial-gases sleeve of our wider universe. Its gases and separation plants serve industrial customers rather than the compute stack the diary tracks elsewhere.
Who it is priced against
The diary has no defined peer group for APD from our data; the comparison the market draws is with Linde, the other major producer of industrial gases.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Air Products carries a seat in the S&P 500 but none in Rubin, and no Closelooknet score has yet been assigned to the name; the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the stock's recent move away from its 50-day average continues, and whether further analyst notes follow its initiation at Sector Weight.

Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APD) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 3 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by RBC Capital, 2026-10-15

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for APD from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target RBC Capital — target 346 from 360 Target cut to $346 from $360 (+17% to spot) 2026-10-15
  • Price target Barclays — target 353 Target set to $353 (+24.4% to spot) 2026-10-12
  • Initiation KeyBanc — at Sector Weight Initiated to Sector Weight 2026-09-10

3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.33%, quarterly · last 1.81 USD on 2026-10-01

Dividends and capital return

What APD pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 7.22 USD per share · a 2.33% yield on the 2026-11-05 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-05
  • Change on the year +1.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 7.14 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.81 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-10-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.75 USD (partial) · 2024: 5.31 USD · 2025: 7.14 USD · 2026: 7.22 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-29

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-06

Quick answers

What is Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APD)?

Air Products and Chemicals Inc trades as APD on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-06.

Is APD in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Air Products and Chemicals Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-11-06.

Where does APD trade against its moving averages?

Air Products and Chemicals Inc trades 5.0% above its 50-day and 6.5% above its 200-day moving average (2.0% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Air Products and Chemicals Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Specialty Chemicals · US), Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APD) sits 4.5% below its 52-week high, 5.0% above its 50-day average; Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA ADR B (SQM) is 42.1% below, Sasol Ltd (SSL) is 16.5% below, Ecolab Inc (ECL) is 0.2% below, as of 2026-11-05. Put any of them next to APD in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Air Products and Chemicals Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Air Products and Chemicals Inc had a beta of 0.15 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 14% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.16% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-05; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Air Products and Chemicals Inc do?

Air Products makes industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and hydrogen, and builds the equipment that separates and liquefies them. It supplies refining, chemical, metals, electronics, energy, medical and food industries across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The company is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and has operated since 1940. The diary has no defined peer group for APD from our data; the comparison the market draws is with Linde, the other major producer of industrial gases. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Air Products and Chemicals Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Air Products holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; the diary places it in the Basic Materials sector, within the specialty and industrial-gases sleeve of our wider universe. Its gases and separation plants serve industrial customers rather than the compute stack the diary tracks elsewhere. Air Products carries a seat in the S&P 500 but none in Rubin, and no Closelooknet score has yet been assigned to the name; the diary has not quoted it in an edition so far. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Air Products and Chemicals Inc pay a dividend?

Air Products and Chemicals Inc has paid 7.22 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.33% on the 2026-11-05 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.81 USD on 2026-10-01. As of 2026-11-05; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Air Products and Chemicals Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Air Products and Chemicals Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by RBC Capital on 2026-10-15 (target 346 from 360). 3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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