Illumina Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Illumina in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Illumina stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ILMN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Illumina saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 29th, there was short interest totaling 4,150,000 shares, a drop of 19.1% from the January 14th total of 5,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,110,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.7 days. Approximately 2.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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Illumina is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 29th 2021.
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Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 11th. The life sciences company reported $1.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.11 by $0.11. Illumina had a net margin of 19.70% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.93%.
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Illumina's stock was trading at $246.01 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, ILMN stock has increased by 78.6% and is now trading at $439.41.
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Illumina updated its FY 2021 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 11th. The company provided EPS guidance of 5.10-5.35 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $6.11. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.79-3.887 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.9 billion.

18 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Illumina's shares. Their forecasts range from $280.00 to $570.00. On average, they anticipate Illumina's share price to reach $365.32 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.9%.
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496 employees have rated Illumina CEO Francis deSouza on Glassdoor.com. Francis deSouza has an approval rating of 92% among Illumina's employees. This puts Francis deSouza in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Illumina trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ILMN."

Illumina's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Baillie Gifford & Co. (13.59%), Edgewood Management LLC (4.76%), Sands Capital Management LLC (2.02%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.88%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.88%). Company insiders that own Illumina stock include Aimee L Hoyt, Charles Dadswell, Frances Arnold, Francis A Desouza, Jay T Flatley, Karen K Mcginnis, Mostafa Ronaghi, Oene Mark Van, Omead Ostadan, Phillip G Febbo, Robert P Ragusa, Robert S Epstein, Sam Samad and Susan H Tousi.
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ILMN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Select Equity Group L.P., WCM Investment Management LLC, WCM Investment Management LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Swedbank, First Trust Advisors LP, Principal Financial Group Inc., and Principal Financial Group Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Illumina company stock in the last year include Aimee L Hoyt, Charles Dadswell, Frances Arnold, Francis A Desouza, Jay T Flatley, Karen K Mcginnis, Mostafa Ronaghi, Oene Mark Van, Phillip G Febbo, Robert P Ragusa, Sam Samad, and Susan H Tousi.
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ILMN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Baillie Gifford & Co., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Ownership Capital B.V., Korea Investment CORP, Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Northern Trust Corp, Ensemble Capital Management LLC, and Bamco Inc. NY.
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Shares of ILMN 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 ILMN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $439.41.

Illumina has a market capitalization of $64.11 billion and generates $3.54 billion in revenue each year. The life sciences company earns $1.00 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.57 on an earnings per share basis.

Illumina employs 7,700 workers across the globe.

The official website for Illumina is www.illumina.com.

Illumina is headquartered at 200 ILLUMINA WAY, SAN DIEGO CA, 92122.

Illumina's mailing address is 200 ILLUMINA WAY, SAN DIEGO CA, 92122. The life sciences company can be reached via phone at 858-202-4500 or via email at [email protected]