With 0.78 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.0 million shares. During the session, the Internet Content & Information company that operates in wider Communication Services sector, reached to the highest price of $49.54 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $48.36. The 52-week range on IAC shows that it touched its highest point at $57.21 and its lowest point at $38.87 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $65.69. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.48.
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 IAC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.43%, but this was up by 8.90% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 18.01% while six-month performance fell -7.72%. The stock lost -3.93% in the past year, while it has gained 15.66% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IAC yields -6.44 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.54. For the next quarter, that number is -0.89. This implies an EPS growth rate of 98.37% for this year and 610.59% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 80.48 million IAC shares are outstanding with a float of 75.19 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 3.0 million, which was 359.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Barry Diller as the firm’s Chairman & Senior Executive, Mr. Joseph M. Levin serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97853 of IAC’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 2024-12-31, IAC reported revenue of $989307000.0 and operating income of $50621000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $134908000.0 and diluted EPS was -$2.39.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for IAC since 13 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 12 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 IAC analysts setting a high price target of 100.0 and a low target of 44.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 64.17857. Based on these targets, IAC could surge 104.21% to reach the target high and fall by -9.13% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 31.06% from current levels.
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 -$3.83444 being high and -$3.89268 being low. For IAC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$3.85385.
