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

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

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

Quidel is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Quidel.

8 brokers have issued 1 year 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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Media headlines about QDEL stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, 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 news headlines about the company an impact score of 46.21 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

Quidel's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional 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 $68.38.

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]