With 0.52 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.01 million shares. During the session, the Telecom Services company that operates in wider Communication Services sector, reached to the highest price of $5.84 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $5.69. The 52-week range on IHS shows that it touched its highest point at $6.30 and its lowest point at $2.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.39. 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 IHS was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.35%, but this was down by -8.00% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 27.21% while six-month performance rose 77.47%. The stock gained 67.15% in the past year, while it has gained 96.92% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IHS yields -0.14 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.58. For the next quarter, that number is 0.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of 107.59% for this year and 55.59% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 335.34 million IHS shares are outstanding with a float of 150.06 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 0.29 million, which was 9.000000400000001 higher than short shares on 1745971200. In addition to Engineer Sam Darwish as the firm’s Chairman & Group CEO, Engineer William S. Saad serves as its Co-Founder, Executive VP & Group COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.45436 of IHS’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 2025-03-31, IHS reported revenue of $439600000.0 and operating income of $162400000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $183500000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.1.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for IHS since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 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 IHS analysts setting a high price target of 17.0 and a low target of 5.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 8.38571. Based on these targets, IHS could surge 195.65% to reach the target high and fall by -13.04% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 45.84% 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 -$5.49202 being high and -$5.72407 being low. For IHS, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$5.6121.
