STAAR Surgical Company (STAA)’s stock is trading at $76.74 at the moment marking a rise of 0.46% from the last session close. As of this writing, shares are priced at -52.94% less than their 52-week high of $163.08, and 56.52% over their 52-week low of $49.03. Based on the past 30-day period, the stock price is -4.73% below the high and +10.88% above the low.
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The 200-day Simple moving average is often placed more emphasis on by traders because of daily price changes. Investors will use the SMA-200 in different situations in trading activity as a key indicator to determine their support and resistance levels, and at the moment, STAA’s SMA-200 is $80.80.
As an additional measure, we should look at the company’s price-to-sales ratio for the past year, which is 15.28 at the moment. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the last twelve months stands at 199.52. STAA’s price to book ratio for the most recent quarter was 13.25, resulting in an 19.22 price to cash per share for the period.
How does STAAR Surgical Company (STAA) stock rate among analysts? Buy, sell, or hold?
The key to trading is to concentrate on the future rather than on the past. During uncertain times, it can be hard to make decisions. The analysts who understand how a market works are usually the most accurate at forecasting its future. Currently, there are 7 brokerage firms that recommend the stock as a Strong Buy. The ratings are commonly aggregated into a single number between 1 and 5. Buy or strong buy is scored 5, outperform is scored 4, hold is scored 3, underperform is scored 2 and strong sell is 1. Using a scale of 1-5, the current average recommendation is 4.57 in simple terms.
STAAR Surgical Company (STAA): Earnings History
If we examine STAAR Surgical Company’s recent earnings history, in the last quarter ended on 3/30/2022, it posted adjusted earnings per share of $0.19, slashing the consensus of $0.08. In other words, it topped the consensus by $0.11, resulting in a 137.50% surprise. In the 3 months period before the previous quarter which was closed on 3/30/2022, the stock recorded adjusted earnings per share of $0.19 in contrast with the Outlook of $0.08. That was a difference of $0.11 and a surprise of 137.50%.
STAAR Surgical Company (STAA): Earnings History
Most analysts expect public companies to report earnings and revenue in line with their projections, but sometimes these figures vary from what they actually expected. In the current quarter, the company had earnings predictions made by 2 different analysts, who are expecting earnings to fall in between the range of 0.19 and 0.16 with an average Earnings Estimate of 0.17 which is in contrast with the last year earnings estimate of 0.19 and also replicates -10.53% growth rate year over year.
STAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ: STAA) Ownership Details
I will give a breakdown of the key shareholders in STAAR Surgical Company (STAA). Recent figures show that the company’s insiders hold 0.65% of shares. A total of 390 institutional investors hold shares in the company, making 95.08% of its stock and 95.71% of its float.
Mar 30, 2022, it was reported that the Company’s largest institutional holder is Broadwood Capital, Inc. holding total of 8.59 million shares that make 17.97% of the company’s total number of shares and are currently priced at 659.35 million.
The securities firm Blackrock Inc. holds 5.65 million shares of STAA, making it the second largest institutional shareholder. Taking this into account, the holding percentage comes to 11.83%, and the holding percentage of shares is valued at 433.93 million.
An overview of STAAR Surgical Company’s technicals
In order to learn about trade movements and investor behavior, it is best to analyze the short, medium, and long term technical indicators along with the average volume of a stock. A 20-day average of the stock’s daily volume suggests STAAR Surgical Company (STAA) traded 350,360 shares per day, with a moving average of $75.13 and price change of +1.59. With the moving average of $68.80 and a price change of +22.55, about 429,642 shares changed hands on average over the past 50 days. Finally, STAA’s 100-day average volume is 513,576 shares, alongside a moving average of $68.13 and a price change of -5.56.
