NASDAQ:QDEL - Quidel Stock Price, Forecast & News

Quidel's stock was trading at $89.68 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, QDEL shares have increased by 8.2% and is now trading at $97.03. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Quidel in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Quidel.

Quidel is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Quidel.

Quidel Co. (NASDAQ:QDEL) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company reported $1.00 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.82 by $0.18. The firm earned $152.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $148 million. Quidel had a return on equity of 22.71% and a net margin of 13.63%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 14.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.80 earnings per share. View Quidel's earnings history.

Quidel updated its fourth quarter 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $151-152 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $139.17 million.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Quidel's stock. Their forecasts range from $75.00 to $92.00. On average, they anticipate Quidel's share price to reach $83.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 14.5%. View analysts' price targets for Quidel.

Headlines about QDEL stock have been trending somewhat negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Quidel earned a news sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutQuidel.

Quidel saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 1,636,200 shares, an increase of 11.3% from the February 27th total of 1,470,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 350,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.7 days. Approximately 4.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Quidel's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Quidel investors own include Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Boeing (BA), Alibaba Group (BABA), AT&T (T), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Twilio (TWLO), Adobe (ADBE), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) and Target (TGT).

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

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One share of QDEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $97.03.

Quidel has a market capitalization of $4.06 billion and generates $534.89 million in revenue each year. The company earns $72.92 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.73 on an earnings per share basis. Quidel employs 1,250 workers across the globe. View additional information about Quidel.

The official website for Quidel is http://www.quidel.com/.

Quidel's mailing address is 9975 SUMMERS RIDGE ROAD, SAN DIEGO CA, 92121. The company can be reached via phone at 858-552-1100 or via email at [email protected]