Guggenheim raised the price target for the Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ:GH) stock to “a Neutral”. The rating was released on December 14, 2023, according to finviz. The research report from Raymond James has upgraded the stock from Mkt Perform to Outperform, with a price target set at $27. The stock was initiated by Bernstein, who disclosed in a research note on September 28, 2023, to Outperform and set the price objective to $34. In their research brief published September 27, 2023, Piper Sandler analysts upgraded the Guardant Health Inc stock from Neutral to Overweight with a price target of $40.
Historical Earnings Surprises and Revenue Forecasts
Profit is the most critical financial performance measure. Every investor in a business is looking forward to the earnings report as stock price to increase when earnings exceed market expectations and progressively decrease when earnings do not meet expectations. The firm reported an earnings per share (EPS) of -$1.58 during the last quarter as opposed to a consensus estimate of -$0.86, which indicates the company missed its estimate by -$0.72, which implies that the company surprised the market by -83.70%. It appears that the average earnings per share estimate for the current quarter (ending in Mar 2024) is -$0.84. This is an average of 18 analysts’ earnings, where the high earnings per share estimate is -$0.66 and the low earnings per share estimate is -$1.04. According to 18 analyst estimates, an average revenue estimate of $150.42M is projected for the current quarter with a high revenue estimate of $161.9M and a low estimate of $147M.
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The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated 17.48% within the last five trades and 10.14% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -25.31% in the last 6 months and -26.37% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. GH stock is trading at a margin of 12.31%, -0.07% and -27.21% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, GH deals in the Healthcare domain. The stock is trading -49.76 percent below its 52-week high and 21.96 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -19.1. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Guardant Health Inc’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at -99.80 percent and the profit margin is -85.02 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 59.59 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $2.51 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 4.45 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 15.81, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 4.78 percent of Guardant Health Inc shares are owned by insiders, and 92.57 percent are held by financial institutions. Kalia Kumud, the Chief Information Officer at Guardant Health Inc (GH) has bought 2,187 shares of firm on Mar 18 ’24 at a price of $17.82 against the total amount of $38963.0. In another inside trade, Joyce Meghan V., Director of Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ:GH) sold 100 shares of the firm on Mar 04 ’24 for a total worth of $1905.0 at a price of $19.05. An inside trade which took place on Dec 04 ’23, Director of Guardant Health Inc Joyce Meghan V. sold 100 shares of firm against total price of $2634.0 at the cost of $26.34 per share.
