Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price up by 1.14% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $13.31.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $13.16, falling within a range of $13.0147 and $13.765. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.992. 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 24.28% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Viasat, Inc currently standing at about $1.73 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-20.
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 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of VSAT currently trading nearly 28.76% and 37.50% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 78.35, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.33% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.17%. Furthermore, Viasat, Inc (VSAT)’s beta value is 0.99, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.80.
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 1.14% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -0.75%%.
Data on historical trading for Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ:VSAT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.74 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.27 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 130.21 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 13.17% of Viasat, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 95.03% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 25.02 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 9.14. According to the data, the short interest in Viasat, Inc (VSAT) stood at 2620.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 25.1 million. The stock has risen by 56.40% 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.
