Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT) price on current trading day, rose 0.61% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $9.88.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $9.82, moving within a range at $9.69 and $9.9926. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.389. Turning to its 52-week performance, $26.70 and $6.69 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VSAT moved 6.70% over the past month.
Viasat, Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1.28 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-05.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VSAT is a 25% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
4 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 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 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 Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
VSAT’s current price about 6.35% and 4.47% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 55.61, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.34% and 6.89% in the 30-day chart. Further, Viasat, Inc (VSAT) has a beta value of 1.10, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.68. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $19, forecast between a low of $19 and high of $19. Looking at the price targets, the low is -92.31% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -92.31%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -92.31% jump to $19 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.35 over the past 10 days and 3.81 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 129.12 million shares.
The 13.34% of Viasat, Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 82.88% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 25.8 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 6.37. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Viasat, Inc (VSAT) stood at 2737.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 23.88 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 16.10% 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.
