In the last trading session, 2.62 million Ouster Inc (NASDAQ:OUST) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.75. With the company’s per share price at $29.32 changed hands at -$1.33 or -4.34% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.58B. OUST’s last price was a discount, traded about -6.79% off its 52-week high of $31.31. The share price had its 52-week low at $5.84, which suggests the last value was 80.08% up since then. When we look at Ouster Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.28 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.90 million.
Analysts gave the Ouster Inc (OUST) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.67. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended OUST as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Ouster Inc (NASDAQ:OUST) trade information
Instantly OUST was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 18.61%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 93.66%, with the 5-day performance at 18.61% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Ouster Inc (NASDAQ:OUST) is 44.15% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 4.6 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.53 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 16, meaning bulls need a downside of -83.25% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, OUST’s forecast low is 16 with 19 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 35.2% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 45.43% for it to hit the projected low.
Ouster Inc (OUST) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 56.80%. The 2025 estimates are for Ouster Inc earnings to increase by 24.39%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 40.13% per year.
Ouster Inc (NASDAQ:OUST)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 5.34% of Ouster Inc shares while 44.47% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 46.98%. There are 44.47% institutions holding the Ouster Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 6.768% of the shares, roughly 3.03 million OUST shares worth $29.76 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.065% or 2.71 million shares worth $26.67 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF. With 1.45 shares estimated at $42.47 million under it, the former controlled 2.91% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.39% of the shares, roughly 1.19 shares worth around $34.9 million.
