NASDAQ:QDEL - Quidel Stock Price, Price Target & More

Quidel trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "QDEL."

Quidel Co. (NASDAQ:QDEL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 8th. The company reported $1.29 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.01 by $0.28. The business earned $169.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $151.50 million. Quidel had a return on equity of 12.54% and a net margin of 3.08%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 129.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.45 EPS. View Quidel's Earnings History.

Quidel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Quidel.

8 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Quidel's shares. Their predictions range from $47.00 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate Quidel's share price to reach $58.8333 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Quidel.

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News headlines about QDEL stock have been trending somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Quidel earned a coverage optimism score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the company an impact score of 45.12 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Quidel's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (4.81%), Millennium Management LLC (2.66%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.48%), OppenheimerFunds Inc. (2.31%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (2.18%) and Point72 Asset Management L.P. (1.70%). Company insiders that own Quidel stock include Douglas C Bryant, Jack W Schuler, John Tamerius, Michael Donald Jr Abney, Randall J Steward, Ratan S Borkar, Robert Joseph Bujarski, Thomas D Brown and Werner Kroll. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Quidel.

QDEL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barclays PLC, Tamarack Advisers LP, New York State Common Retirement Fund, Mesirow Financial Investment Management Equity Management, Cannell Peter B & Co. Inc., First Light Asset Management LLC, Birchview Capital LP and Legal & General Group Plc. Company insiders that have sold Quidel company stock in the last year include Douglas C Bryant, Jack W Schuler, Michael Donald Jr Abney, Randall J Steward, Ratan S Borkar, Robert Joseph Bujarski, Thomas D Brown and Werner Kroll. View Insider Buying and Selling for Quidel.

QDEL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Eagle Asset Management Inc., OppenheimerFunds Inc., Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Lisanti Capital Growth LLC and Sei Investments Co.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Quidel.

Shares of QDEL 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 QDEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.45.

Quidel has a market capitalization of $2.56 billion and generates $277.74 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-8,160,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.07) on an earnings per share basis. Quidel employs 1,193 workers across the globe.

Quidel's mailing address is 12544 HIGH BLUFF DRIVE SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA, 92130. The company can be reached via phone at 858-552-1100 or via email at [email protected]