NASDAQ:COMM - Commscope Stock Price, Price Target & More

Commscope trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "COMM."

Commscope announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Thursday, August 3rd 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $100,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Commscope Holding Company Inc (NASDAQ:COMM) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 1st. The communications equipment provider reported $0.49 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.46 by $0.03. The communications equipment provider earned $1.12 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.11 billion. Commscope had a return on equity of 24.08% and a net margin of 4.27%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.52 EPS. View Commscope's Earnings History.

Commscope is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Commscope.

Commscope issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, June, 12th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.33-2.48 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.39. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.675-4.825 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.76 billion.Commscope also updated its Q2 guidance to $0.63-0.68 EPS.

12 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Commscope's stock. Their predictions range from $31.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect Commscope's stock price to reach $36.60 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Commscope.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Commscope in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

Commscope saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totalling 10,724,316 shares, an increase of 22.0% from the May 31st total of 8,788,648 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,253,873 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 8.6 days. Approximately 5.7% of the company's shares are short sold. View Commscope's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Commscope include Motorola Solutions (MSI), L3 Technologies (LLL), Ubiquiti Networks (UBNT), ARRIS International (ARRS), Echostar (SATS), ViaSat (VSAT), Maxar Technologies (MAXR), Mitel Networks (MITL), Casa Systems (CASA), Loral Space & Communications Ltd. (LORL), CalAmp (CAMP), Comtech Telecomm. (CMTL), Sierra Wireless (SWIR), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT) and Energous (WATT).

Press coverage about COMM stock has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Commscope earned a media sentiment score of 0.02 on Accern's scale. They also gave media stories about the communications equipment provider an impact score of 45.38 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

Commscope's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd. (0.05%), Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (0.04%), Amalgamated Bank (0.02%), NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%) and DnB Asset Management AS (0.01%). Company insiders that own Commscope stock include Alexander W Pease, Claudius E Iv Watts, Frank B Wyatt II, Frank M Drendel, Group LP Carlyle, Joanne M Maguire, Mark A Olson, Marvin S Edwards Jr, Marvin S Edwards, Jr, Morgan C S Kurk, Peter U Karlsson, Philip Martin Armstrong Jr, Randall W Crenshaw, Robert W Granow, Robyn T Mingle, Stephen C Gray and Timothy T Yates. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Commscope.

COMM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of Montreal Can and Amalgamated Bank. Company insiders that have sold Commscope company stock in the last year include Frank M Drendel, Marvin S Edwards Jr, Marvin S Edwards, Jr, Philip Martin Armstrong Jr and Stephen C Gray. View Insider Buying and Selling for Commscope.

COMM stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd., Hartford Investment Management Co., Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and DnB Asset Management AS. Company insiders that have bought Commscope stock in the last two years include Alexander W Pease, Claudius E Iv Watts, Frank B Wyatt II, Joanne M Maguire, Morgan C S Kurk, Robert W Granow, Robyn T Mingle and Timothy T Yates. View Insider Buying and Selling for Commscope.

Shares of COMM can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of COMM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $30.16.

Commscope has a market capitalization of $5.83 billion and generates $4.56 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $193.76 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.02 on an earnings per share basis. Commscope employs 20,000 workers across the globe.

Commscope's mailing address is 1100 COMMSCOPE PLACE SE, HICKORY NC, 28602. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at 82-8-3242-200x or via email at [email protected]