Bruker (BRKR) Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bruker in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" BRKR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BRKR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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3 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for Bruker's shares. Their BRKR share price forecasts range from $70.00 to $98.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $84.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 18.0% from the stock's current price.
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Bruker's stock was trading at $68.35 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BRKR stock has increased by 4.8% and is now trading at $71.60.
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Bruker saw a decrease in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,060,000 shares, a decrease of 18.2% from the April 30th total of 3,740,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 858,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.6 days. Approximately 3.1% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 2nd 2023.
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Bruker Co. (NASDAQ:BRKR) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May, 4th. The medical research company reported $0.64 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.09. The medical research company had revenue of $685.30 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $639.63 million. Bruker had a net margin of 11.89% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 34.71%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 15.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.49 earnings per share.

Bruker declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, June 16th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.28%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 31st.
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Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR) pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.28%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 9.52%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BRKR will have a dividend payout ratio of 6.92% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Bruker issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.55-$2.60 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.56. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.83 billion-$2.88 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.82 billion.

126 employees have rated Bruker Chief Executive Officer Frank H. Laukien on Glassdoor.com. Frank H. Laukien has an approval rating of 54% among the company's employees. This puts Frank H. Laukien in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 79.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Bruker to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Bruker investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), CVS Health (CVS), Micron Technology (MU), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Applied Materials (AMAT), Bank of America (BAC) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY).

Bruker trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BRKR."

Bruker's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.49%), FMR LLC (7.41%), State Street Corp (2.26%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.83%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.15%) and Brown Advisory Inc. (1.08%). Insiders that own company stock include Cynthia M Friend, Frank H Laukien, Marc A Kastner, Mark Munch and Richard A Packer.
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Shares of BRKR stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of BRKR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $71.60.

Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR) has a market capitalization of $10.50 billion and generates $2.53 billion in revenue each year. The medical research company earns $296.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.10 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,525 workers across the globe.

Bruker's mailing address is 40 Manning Road, Billerica MA, 01821. The official website for the company is www.bruker.com. The medical research company can be reached via phone at (978) 663-3660, via email at investor.relations@bruker.com, or via fax at 978-663-5585.