With 0.52 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.79 million shares. During the session, the Medical Devices company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $22.52 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.7. The 52-week range on IART shows that it touched its highest point at $45.42 and its lowest point at $16.81 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.16.
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 IART was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.90%, but this was down by -7.68% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 27.22% while six-month performance fell -24.09%. The stock lost -48.63% in the past year, while it has lost -1.90% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IART yields -0.09 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.51. For the next quarter, that number is 0.85. This implies an EPS growth rate of -20.92% for this year and 2.55% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -3.71% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 3.10%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 77.13 million IART shares are outstanding with a float of 66.12 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 3.45 million, which was 446.99996999999996 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Dr. Stuart M. Essig Ph.D. as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Jan De Witte serves as its President, CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.9315 of IART’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, IART reported revenue of $380834000.0 and operating income of -$8150000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $34972000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.14.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for IART since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 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 IART analysts setting a high price target of 35.0 and a low target of 20.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 26.0. Based on these targets, IART could surge 57.3% to reach the target high and fall by -10.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.85% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.47156 being high and $2.43154 being low. For IART, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.45155.
