Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, April 16, with the stock price down by -4.33% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $8.17.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $8.54, falling within a range of $8.06 and $8.6. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.065. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $26.70, and the low was $6.69. On the whole, VSAT has fluctuated by -16.80% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Viasat, Inc currently standing at about $1.05 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-05.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 4.51B, with a low estimate of 1.12B and a high estimate of 1.17B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 1.14B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that VSAT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of VSAT currently trading nearly -14.67% and -13.71% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 40.19, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.73% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 8.84%. Furthermore, Viasat, Inc (VSAT)’s beta value is 1.05, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.82.
A comparison of Viasat, Inc (VSAT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. VSAT showed an intraday change of -4.33% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -47.90%%.
Data on historical trading for Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.86 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.60 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 129.12 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 13.32% of Viasat, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 82.90% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 25.25 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 9.06. According to the data, the short interest in Viasat, Inc (VSAT) stood at 2678.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 25.8 million. The stock has fallen by -4.00% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the VSAT stock heading into the next quarter.
