With 1.82 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.88 million shares. The 52-week range on IRBT shows that it touched its highest point at $14.51 and its lowest point at $5.83 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $11.47. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.86.
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 IRBT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -10.09%, but this was down by -13.65% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.35% while six-month performance fell -10.69%. The stock lost -41.81% in the past year, while it has lost -14.32% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IRBT yields -4.60 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.22. For the next quarter, that number is -1.73. This implies an EPS growth rate of 40.36% for this year and 73.45% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 30.56 million IRBT shares are outstanding with a float of 28.61 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for IRBT 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.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$4.31591 being high and -$4.99339 being low. For IRBT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$4.61. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.57 and the low estimate is -$0.97. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.77.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded IRBT stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
