Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT) price on Friday, March 17, rose 0.23% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $34.65.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $34.57, moving within a range at $33.13 and $35.04. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.27. Turning to its 52-week performance, $50.59 and $25.38 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VSAT moved -0.94% over the past month.
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Viasat Inc.’s market cap currently stands at around $2.72 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for May 23, 2023 – May 29, 2023. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be -$0.23, which has seen fiscal year 2023 EPS growth forecast to increase to -$1.49 and about -$1.14 for fiscal year 2024. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -609.50% for 2023 and 23.50% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $764.62 million for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $654 million and $842.3 million respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 9.00% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2023 to grow to $2.75 billion, representing a -1.50% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was 1 upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VSAT is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
7 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 4 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend VSAT as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Overweight which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
VSAT’s current price about 2.25% and 0.47% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 51.40, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.80% and 4.74% in the 30-day chart. Further, Viasat Inc. (VSAT) has a beta value of 1.25, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.82. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $51.00, forecast between a low of $37.00 and high of $79.00. Looking at the price targets, the low is -6.78% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -127.99%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -26.98% jump to $44.00 which is the analysts’ median price.
In the market, a comparison of Viasat Inc. (VSAT) and its peers suggest the former has performed considerably stronger. Data shows VSAT’s intraday price has changed 0.23% in last session and -30.78% over the past year. Comparatively, Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) has moved -0.58% on the day and only -22.06% in the past 12 months. Looking at another peer, we see that Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) price has gained 0.57% on the day. However, the stock is -29.91% off its price a year ago. Moreover, QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM) is also up 0.18% in trading on the day while keeping a a downtrend of -19.75% over the past year. Elsewhere, the overall performance for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial shows that the indexes are down -1.10% and -1.19% respectively in the last trading.
If we refocus on Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.46 million over the past 10 days and 500.19K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 76.14 million shares.
The 0.40% of Viasat Inc.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 85.90% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 5.68 million on Jan 12, 2023, giving us a short ratio of 12.9. The data shows that as of Jan 12, 2023 short interest in Viasat Inc. (VSAT) stood at 7.52% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 6.04 million registered in Dec 14, 2022. Current price change has pushed the stock 9.48% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VSAT stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
