With 0.85 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.63 million shares. During the session, the Communication Equipment company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $10.24 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.0. The 52-week range on VIAV shows that it touched its highest point at $11.49 and its lowest point at $6.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $10.80. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.91.
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 VIAV was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.23%, but this was down by -2.60% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 11.48% while six-month performance rose 42.86%. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VIAV yields -0.17 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.53. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 15.19% for this year and 38.30% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 222.00 million VIAV shares are outstanding with a float of 218.38 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 5.44 million, which was 245.00001 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Oleg Khaykin as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Ilan Daskal serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.94523 of VIAV’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 2021-07-03, VIAV reported revenue of $238200000.0 and operating income of $11500000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $28200000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.01.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VIAV since 6 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 VIAV analysts setting a high price target of 13.0 and a low target of 9.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 10.85. Based on these targets, VIAV could surge 28.71% to reach the target high and fall by -5.94% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 7.43% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.32651 being high and $0.3165 being low. For VIAV, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.32176.
