With 1.29 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.78 million shares. During the session, the Information Technology Services company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $335.835 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $326.94. The 52-week range on IT shows that it touched its highest point at $584.01 and its lowest point at $337.40 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $454.67. IT paid its most recent dividend on 932342400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 932342400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.19.
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 IT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.88%, but this was down by -16.92% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -21.70% while six-month performance fell -40.09%. The stock lost -32.19% in the past year, while it has lost -34.13% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IT yields 16.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 13.59. For the next quarter, that number is 3.30. This implies an EPS growth rate of -11.46% for this year and 8.96% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 3.59% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 44.23%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 77.39 million IT shares are outstanding with a float of 74.71 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-07-15, short shares totaled 2.98 million, which was 388.0 higher than short shares on 1749772800. In addition to Mr. Eugene A. Hall as the firm’s CEO & Chairman, Mr. Craig W. Safian CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97386 of IT’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, IT reported revenue of $1534130000.0 and operating income of $278032000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $331181000.0 and diluted EPS was $2.71.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for IT since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 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 IT analysts setting a high price target of 540.0 and a low target of 345.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 454.66666. Based on these targets, IT could surge 64.36% to reach the target high and rise by 5.01% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 38.39% 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 $11.93889 being high and $11.84867 being low. For IT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $11.89879. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.85 and the low estimate is $2.47. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.68.
