ICU Medical, Inc (NASDAQ:ICUI) price on Friday, March 21, fall -0.69% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $147.07.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $148.09, moving within a range at $142.83 and $150.74. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.736. Turning to its 52-week performance, $196.26 and $93.36 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ICUI moved -9.86% over the past month.
ICU Medical, Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $3.61 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-26.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ICUI is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
2 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend ICUI 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.
ICUI’s current price about 0.99% and -5.66% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 47.62, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.27% and 5.74% in the 30-day chart. Further, ICU Medical, Inc (ICUI) has a beta value of 0.84, and an average true range (ATR) of 7.03. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $183, forecast between a low of $97 and high of $198. Looking at the price targets, the low is 34.05% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -34.63%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -24.43% jump to $183 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on ICU Medical, Inc (NASDAQ:ICUI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.33 over the past 10 days and 224.97K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 24.52 million shares.
The 7.89% of ICU Medical, Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 99.25% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.78 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 3.55. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in ICU Medical, Inc (ICUI) stood at 505.00000000000006 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 0.73 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -5.22% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ICUI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
