Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) : Investors Should Not Dump CMTL Stock In 2024

In the last trading session, 0.92 million Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.56. With the company’s per share price at $4.20 changed hands at $0.11 or 2.69% during last session, the market valuation stood at $119.66M. CMTL’s last price was a discount, traded about -210.48% off its 52-week high of $13.04. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.53, which suggests the last value was 63.57% up since then. When we look at Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.72 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 473.66K.

Analysts gave the Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (CMTL) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.33. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended CMTL as a Hold, 0 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.06.

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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) trade information

Instantly CMTL was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 10.82%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -50.18%, with the 5-day performance at 10.82% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) is 34.19% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 1.11 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 5.44 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 9, meaning bulls need an upside of 53.33% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, CMTL’s forecast low is 3.5 with 14.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -245.24% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 16.67% for it to hit the projected low.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (CMTL) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Comtech Telecommunications Corp. share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 22.45% over the past 6 months, a -52.31% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 6.60%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -1.30% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 4 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 128.72M. 3 analysts are of the opinion that Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s revenue for the current quarter will be 140.7M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 148.81M and 151.87M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -13.50%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -7.40%.

The 2024 estimates are for Comtech Telecommunications Corp. earnings to increase by 33.26%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 17.00% per year.

CMTL Dividends

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in October. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.23 per year.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 9.18% of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. shares while 58.59% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 64.52%. There are 58.59% institutions holding the Comtech Telecommunications Corp. stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 4.6786% of the shares, roughly 1.35 million CMTL shares worth $4.09 million.

NEEDHAM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 4.4188% or 1.27 million shares worth $3.86 million as of 2024-06-30.