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 for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.29) by $0.10. The communications equipment provider earned $537 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $506.02 million. ViaSat had a negative net margin of 2.08% and a negative return on equity of 2.26%. The company's revenue was up 22.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm 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 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for ViaSat's stock. Their forecasts range from $66.00 to $145.00. On average, they anticipate ViaSat's stock price to reach $95.8333 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.4% 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.

News coverage about VSAT stock has trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. ViaSat earned a news sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the communications equipment provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for ViaSat.

ViaSat saw a decrease in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,041,800 shares, a decrease of 11.7% from the July 31st total of 3,446,400 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 588,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.2 days. Currently, 5.3% of the shares of the company 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), Casa Systems (CASA), Harmonic (HLIT), Maxar Technologies (MAXR), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), Sierra Wireless (SWIR), CalAmp (CAMP), Cambium Networks (CMBM), Ceragon Networks (CRNT) and KVH Industries (KVHI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other ViaSat investors own include InterDigital Wireless (IDCC), Xilinx (XLNX), Tesla (TSLA), Bank of Hawaii (BOH), General Dynamics (GD), Hormel Foods (HRL), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

ViaSat's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.54%), BlackRock Inc. (8.55%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.50%), Fiduciary Management Inc. WI (1.71%), Northern Trust Corp (1.36%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.90%). 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 BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Great Lakes Advisors LLC, South Dakota Investment Council and Bank of America Corp DE. 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 Renaissance Technologies LLC, Morgan Stanley, Paloma Partners Management Co, Brightline Capital Management LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Jane Street Group LLC and Prudential Financial 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 $77.69.

ViaSat has a market capitalization of $4.76 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]