Healthy Upside Potential: Grifols SA ADR (GRFS)

With 0.63 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.14 million shares. During the session, the Drug Manufacturers – General company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $8.605 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.37. The 52-week range on GRFS shows that it touched its highest point at $12.15 and its lowest point at $5.30 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $14.76. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.48.

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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 GRFS was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.39%, but this was down by -2.49% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.82% while six-month performance rose 19.61%. The stock lost -10.14% in the past year, while it has lost -25.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for GRFS yields 0.25 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.99. EPS is expected to grow by 60.53% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -37.97%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 257.44 million GRFS shares are outstanding with a float of 257.30 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 4.17 million, which was 61.000003 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Jose Ignacio Abia Buenache as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Lluis Pons Gomez serves as its Senior Vice President of Strategy & COO Office.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.56284 of GRFS’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 2024-09-30, GRFS reported revenue of $1792956000.0 and operating income of $319452000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $425396000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.076058.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for GRFS since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With GRFS analysts setting a high price target of 11.8 and a low target of 8.93, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.7575. Based on these targets, GRFS could surge 37.21% to reach the target high and rise by 3.84% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.09% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.73991 being high and $0.48055 being low. For GRFS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.61023. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.23. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.63 and the low estimate is $0.63. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.63.