NYSE:PRLB - Proto Labs Stock Price, Forecast & News

Proto Labs trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "PRLB."

Proto Labs Inc (NYSE:PRLB) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The industrial products company reported $0.76 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.74 by $0.02. The industrial products company had revenue of $117.46 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $119.39 million. Proto Labs had a return on equity of 12.28% and a net margin of 14.74%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 1.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.86 EPS. View Proto Labs' Earnings History.

Proto Labs is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Proto Labs.

Proto Labs will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

4 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Proto Labs' stock. Their forecasts range from $84.00 to $84.00. On average, they anticipate Proto Labs' stock price to reach $84.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 22.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Proto Labs.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Proto Labs in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Proto Labs.

Press coverage about PRLB stock has trended extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Proto Labs earned a coverage optimism score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the industrial products company 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 Proto Labs.

Proto Labs saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,330,000 shares, an increase of 8.1% from the December 15th total of 3,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 146,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 22.7 days. Approximately 13.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Proto Labs' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Proto Labs investors own include Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics (BCLI), Netflix (NFLX), Starbucks (SBUX), Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), Baidu (BIDU), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) and Alphabet (GOOG).

Proto Labs' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Riverbridge Partners LLC (5.64%), Capital Investment Services of America Inc. (0.45%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.35%), Summit Creek Advisors LLC (0.23%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.08%) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%). Company insiders that own Proto Labs stock include Arthur R Baker III, John B Goodman, John Way, Robert Bodor and Sven Wehrwein. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Proto Labs.

PRLB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Creek Advisors LLC, Riverbridge Partners LLC, Scout Investments Inc., Capital Investment Services of America Inc., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and We Are One Seven LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Proto Labs.

PRLB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Radnor Capital Management LLC, Lenox Wealth Advisors LLC and D.B. Root & Company LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Proto Labs.

Shares of PRLB 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 PRLB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $109.00.

Proto Labs has a market capitalization of $2.92 billion and generates $445.60 million in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $76.59 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.81 on an earnings per share basis. Proto Labs employs 2,487 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Proto Labs.

The official website for Proto Labs is http://www.protolabs.com/.

Proto Labs' mailing address is 5540 Pioneer Creek Drive, Maple Plain MN, 55359. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 763-479-3680 or via email at [email protected]