Its Stock Has Paid Off Big Time For Viasat, Inc

With 1.94 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.23 million shares. During the session, the Communication Equipment company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $9.845 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.37. The 52-week range on VSAT shows that it touched its highest point at $29.11 and its lowest point at $9.52 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.40. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.37.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VSAT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.14%, but this was down by -14.95% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -45.15% while six-month performance fell -44.80%. The stock lost -46.11% in the past year, while it has lost -66.01% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VSAT yields -8.13 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.27. For the next quarter, that number is -0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of -91.38% for this year and 148.00% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 125.85 million VSAT shares are outstanding with a float of 106.38 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 15.91 million, which was 1245.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Mark D. Dankberg as the firm’s Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mr. Kumara Guru Gowrappan serves as its President.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.83713996 of VSAT’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, VSAT reported revenue of $1126460000.0 and operating income of $59735000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $413731000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.26.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VSAT since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.