Now Is The Time To Build A Position In IRIDEX Corp (NASDAQ:IRIX)

In last trading session, IRIDEX Corp (NASDAQ:IRIX) saw 0.35 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.77. Company’s recent per share price level of $1.13 trading at $0.16 or 16.49% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $18.80M. That closing price of IRIX’s stock is at a discount of -223.01% from its 52-week high price of $3.65 and is indicating a premium of 15.04% from its 52-week low price of $0.96. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 86890.0 shares which gives us an average trading volume of 43.21K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For IRIDEX Corp (IRIX), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 3.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0 in the current quarter.

IRIDEX Corp (NASDAQ:IRIX) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 16.49%, in the last five days IRIX remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 03/12/25 when the stock touched $1.13 price level, adding 17.26% to its value on the day. IRIDEX Corp’s shares saw a change of -32.74% in year-to-date performance and have moved -10.32% in past 5-day. IRIDEX Corp (NASDAQ:IRIX) showed a performance of -24.67% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 0.27 million shares which calculate 7.67 days to cover the short interests.

IRIDEX Corp (IRIX) estimates and forecasts

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 10.79% during past 5 years.

IRIDEX Corp (NASDAQ:IRIX)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 20.67% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 19.45 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 24.52%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 19.45% institutions for IRIDEX Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. PARAGON ASSOCIATES & PARAGON ASSOCIATES II JOINT VENTURE is the top institutional holder at IRIX for having 1.0 million shares of worth $2.16 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 6.1399 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 0.56 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 3.4523 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.21 million.

On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 376.94 shares of worth $0.43 million or 2.27% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 164.11 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $0.19 million in the company or a holder of 0.99% of company’s stock.