NASDAQ:QDELQuidel Stock Price, Forecast & News

Quidel's stock was trading at $89.68 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, QDEL shares have increased by 204.1% and is now trading at $272.76.
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6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Quidel in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Quidel is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 4th 2020.
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Quidel Co. (NASDAQ:QDEL) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company reported $1.00 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.82 by $0.18. The firm earned $152.20 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $148 million. Quidel had a net margin of 23.61% and a return on equity of 33.86%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 14.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.80 EPS.
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Quidel issued an update on its second quarter 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, July, 6th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $201-202 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $178.91 million.

6 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Quidel's shares. Their forecasts range from $75.00 to $363.00. On average, they expect Quidel's share price to reach $189.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 30.5%.
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Headlines about QDEL stock have been trending very positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media 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 -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Quidel earned a coverage optimism score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.
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Quidel saw a decrease in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,300,000 shares, a decrease of 14.2% from the July 15th total of 2,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,230,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.9 days. Currently, 6.2% of the company's shares are sold short.
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Quidel trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "QDEL."

Quidel's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Cannell Peter B & Co. Inc. (1.25%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (1.08%), GW&K Investment Management LLC (0.48%), Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado (0.41%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.29%) and Swiss National Bank (0.20%). Company insiders that own Quidel stock include Charles P Slacik, Douglas C Bryant, Edward Keith Russell, Edward L Michael, Karen Gibson, Kenneth F Buechler, Mary Lake Ph D Polan, Michael Donald Jr Abney, Randall J Steward, Ratan S Borkar, Robert Joseph Bujarski, Thomas D Brown and Werner Kroll.
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QDEL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including New York State Common Retirement Fund, BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A., Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS, GW&K Investment Management LLC, AMI Asset Management Corp, Congress Asset Management Co. MA, and Scout Investments Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Quidel company stock in the last year include Douglas C Bryant, Edward Keith Russell, Karen Gibson, Kenneth F Buechler, Mary Lake Ph D Polan, Michael Donald Jr Abney, Randall J Steward, Ratan S Borkar, Robert Joseph Bujarski, and Werner Kroll.
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QDEL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cannell Peter B & Co. Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., New York State Teachers Retirement System, Russell Investments Group Ltd., State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System, Texas Permanent School Fund, Premier Asset Management LLC, and Comerica Bank. Company insiders that have bought Quidel stock in the last two years include Douglas C Bryant, and Edward L Michael.
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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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of QDEL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $272.76.

Quidel has a market capitalization of $11.44 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.

The official website for Quidel is 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]