GeneDx Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:WGS) price on Friday, July 25, fall -1.99% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $79.83.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $81.45, moving within a range at $79.45 and $82.96. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.077. Turning to its 52-week performance, $117.75 and $25.32 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, WGS moved -10.23% over the past month.
GeneDx Holdings Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $2.28 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jun-20.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that WGS is a 50% Buy. 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 Hold category.
3 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend WGS 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.
WGS’s current price about -5.73% and 4.18% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 47.85, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.34% and 5.07% in the 30-day chart. Further, GeneDx Holdings Corp (WGS) has a beta value of 2.05. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $39.5, forecast between a low of $21 and high of $70. Looking at the price targets, the low is 73.69% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 12.31%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 50.52% jump to $39.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on GeneDx Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:WGS), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.61 over the past 10 days and 1.13 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 28.53 million shares.
The 12.78% of GeneDx Holdings Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 102.37% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.48 million on 2025-07-15, giving us a short ratio of 3.55. The data shows that as of 2025-07-15 short interest in GeneDx Holdings Corp (WGS) stood at 2462.0000999999997 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 3.75 million registered in 2025-06-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 139.87% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the WGS stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
