During the last session, Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ:GH)’s traded shares were 1.65 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.49. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $42.66, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.84% or $1.18. The 52-week high for the GH share is $50.89, that puts it down -19.29 from that peak though still a striking 62.94% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $15.81. The company’s market capitalization is $5.27B, and the average trade volume was 2.20 million shares over the past three months.
Guardant Health Inc (GH) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.48. GH has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 13 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 13 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.6.
Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ:GH) trade information
Guardant Health Inc (GH) registered a 2.84% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.84% in intraday trading to $42.66, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.23%, and it has moved by -10.32% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 124.53%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $40, which implies a decrease of -6.65% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $36 and $125 respectively. As a result, GH is trading at a discount of -193.01% off the target high and 15.61% off the low.
Guardant Health Inc (GH) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 15.71% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 189.96M as predicted by 18 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 18 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 205.36M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 168.49M and 177.24M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 12.74% and then jump by 15.87% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -33.61%. While earnings are projected to return 19.10% in 2025, the next five years will return 17.42% per annum.
GH Dividends
Guardant Health Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in April. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
The next largest institutional holding, with 11.24 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 9.2332% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $324.55 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Guardant Health Inc (GH) shares are Vanguard Specialized-Health Care Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Oct 31, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Specialized-Health Care Fund owns about 8.33 shares. This amounts to just over 6.75 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $355.36 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.67, or about 2.97% of the stock, which is worth about $156.39 million.
