ViaSat Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:VSAT)

ViaSat trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "VSAT."

ViaSat, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 8th. The communications equipment provider reported ($0.19) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.29) by $0.10. The communications equipment provider earned $537 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $506.02 million. ViaSat had a negative net margin of 2.08% and a negative return on equity of 2.26%. ViaSat's revenue for the quarter was up 22.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted ($0.30) earnings per share. View ViaSat's Earnings History.

ViaSat is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for ViaSat.

6 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for ViaSat's shares. Their predictions range from $66.00 to $145.00. On average, they expect ViaSat's share price to reach $95.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 34.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for ViaSat.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ViaSat in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for ViaSat.

Press coverage about VSAT stock has been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. ViaSat earned a media sentiment score of -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the communications equipment provider 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 term. View News Stories for ViaSat.

ViaSat saw a drop in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,770,000 shares, a drop of 5.8% from the August 30th total of 2,940,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 478,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 5.8 days. Currently, 4.8% of the company's stock are short sold. View ViaSat's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to ViaSat include Ubiquiti (UI), Ubiquiti Networks (UBNT), Echostar (SATS), Commscope (COMM), Loral Space & Communications Ltd. (LORL), Comtech Telecomm. (CMTL), Harmonic (HLIT), Casa Systems (CASA), Maxar Technologies (MAXR), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), Sierra Wireless (SWIR), CalAmp (CAMP), Ceragon Networks (CRNT), Cambium Networks (CMBM) and KVH Industries (KVHI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other ViaSat investors own include InterDigital Wireless (IDCC), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), Hormel Foods (HRL), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Xilinx (XLNX), General Dynamics (GD), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Boeing (BA), Raytheon (RTN) and Celgene (CELG).

ViaSat's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Virginia National Bank (0.11%), Cambiar Investors LLC (0.05%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.03%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Cerebellum GP LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own ViaSat stock include B Allen Lay, Bruce Leroy Dirks, David Louis Ryan, Doug Abts, Fpr Partners Llc, Harvey White, Jeffrey M Nash, John P Stenbit, Ken Allen Peterman, Keven K Lippert, Kevin J Harkenrider, Mark D Dankberg, Mark J Miller, Melinda Michele Kimbro, Richard A Baldridge, Robert James Blair, Robert W Johnson, Shawn Lynn Duffy and Toro Melinda Michele Del. View Institutional Ownership Trends for ViaSat.

VSAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Virginia National Bank, Pacer Advisors Inc., Cambiar Investors LLC, Meeder Asset Management Inc., Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Addison Capital Co. Company insiders that have sold ViaSat company stock in the last year include B Allen Lay, Bruce Leroy Dirks, David Louis Ryan, Doug Abts, Fpr Partners Llc, Harvey White, Jeffrey M Nash, John P Stenbit, Ken Allen Peterman, Keven K Lippert, Kevin J Harkenrider, Mark D Dankberg, Mark J Miller, Melinda Michele Kimbro, Richard A Baldridge, Robert W Johnson, Shawn Lynn Duffy and Toro Melinda Michele Del. View Insider Buying and Selling for ViaSat.

VSAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Cerebellum GP LLC, Atwater Malick LLC and Coastal Investment Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for ViaSat.

Shares of VSAT 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 VSAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $71.51.

ViaSat has a market capitalization of $4.38 billion and generates $2.07 billion in revenue each year. The communications equipment provider earns $-67,620,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.13) on an earnings per share basis. ViaSat employs 5,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About ViaSat.

The official website for ViaSat is http://www.viasat.com/.

ViaSat's mailing address is 6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA, 92009. The communications equipment provider can be reached via phone at 760-476-2200 or via email at [email protected]