Following A -1.71% Weekly Decline, Is It Still A Buy For Azenta Inc (NASDAQ: AZTA)?

Azenta Inc (NASDAQ:AZTA)’s traded shares stood at 0.87 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.64. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $27.00, to imply a decrease of -3.67% or -$1.03 in intraday trading. The AZTA share’s 52-week high remains $63.58, putting it -135.48% down since that peak but still an impressive 11.44% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $23.91.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Azenta Inc (AZTA), translating to a mean rating of 3.00. Of 3 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give AZTA a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy.

Azenta Inc (NASDAQ:AZTA) trade information

After registering a -3.67% downside in the last session, Azenta Inc (AZTA) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -1.71%, and -0.48% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -46.00%.

The extremes give us $62 and $78 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, AZTA has been trading -188.89% off suggested target high and -129.63% from its likely low.

AZTA Dividends

Azenta Inc has its next earnings report out in June. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 5.09 million shares, or about 9.606% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $267.71 million.

We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Azenta Inc (AZTA) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF holds roughly 2.83 shares. This is just over 6.17% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $76.29 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 1.26, or 2.74% of the shares, all valued at about 33.89 million.