Qiagen Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:QGEN)

Qiagen trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "QGEN."

Qiagen NV (NYSE:QGEN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The company reported $0.36 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.01. The business earned $382.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $382.98 million. Qiagen had a positive return on equity of 12.24% and a negative net margin of 1.68%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 1.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.35 EPS. View Qiagen's Earnings History.

Qiagen is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 3rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Qiagen.

Qiagen updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.43-1.44 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.38. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$1.56 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.53 billion.

16 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Qiagen's shares. Their forecasts range from $31.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate Qiagen's stock price to reach $35.86 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Qiagen.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Qiagen in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Qiagen.

News coverage about QGEN stock has trended very positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Qiagen earned a media sentiment score of 3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Qiagen.

Qiagen saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,010,000 shares, an increase of 13.3% from the September 15th total of 3,540,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,390,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.9 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Qiagen's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Qiagen include Seattle Genetics (SGEN), NOVOZYMES A/S/S (NVZMY), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), BIO-TECHNE (TECH), Moderna (MRNA), argenx (ARGX), China Biologic Products (CBPO), BioNTech (BNTX), Spark Therapeutics (ONCE), Repligen (RGEN), bluebird bio (BLUE), Ablynx (ABLYF), Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT), Allogene Therapeutics (ALLO) and Crispr Therapeutics (CRSP).

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Qiagen's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (5.55%), Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC (1.77%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.68%), Sycomore Asset Management (0.63%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.22%) and Sector Gamma AS (0.21%).

QGEN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Trust Advisors LP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Hardman Johnston Global Advisors LLC, Exane Asset Management, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Rhumbline Advisers, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. and First Bank & Trust.

QGEN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sycomore Asset Management, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Fisher Asset Management LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, Sector Gamma AS, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Brinker Capital Inc. and Stephens Investment Management Group LLC.

Shares of QGEN 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 QGEN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.56.

Qiagen has a market capitalization of $9.15 billion and generates $1.50 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $190.38 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.34 on an earnings per share basis. Qiagen employs 4,952 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Qiagen.

The official website for Qiagen is http://www.qiagen.com/.

Qiagen's mailing address is HULSTERWEG 82, VENLO P7, 5912 PL. The company can be reached via phone at 31-77-355-6600 or via email at [email protected]