With 1.04 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.01 million shares. The 52-week range on VCYT shows that it touched its highest point at $47.32 and its lowest point at $19.73 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $43.27. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.19.
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 VCYT was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.61%, but this was up by 5.56% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -30.15% while six-month performance fell -9.43%. The stock gained 51.36% in the past year, while it has lost -22.83% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VCYT yields 0.31 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.69. For the next quarter, that number is 0.03. This implies an EPS growth rate of 60.37% for this year and 39.71% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 77.77 million VCYT shares are outstanding with a float of 76.84 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 VCYT since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 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 $0.3663 being high and $0.35077 being low. For VCYT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.36. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.34 and the low estimate is $0.27. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.31.
