3.91% volatility in Guardant Health Inc (GH) last month: This is a red flag warning

On Monday, Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ: GH) was -2.53% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $21.38. A 52-week range for GH has been $15.81 – $37.04.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Healthcare sector saw sales topped by 49.27%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 23.98%. With a float of $117.72 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $121.63 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 1779 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 82.26%, operating margin of -79.43%, and the pretax margin is -76.15%.

Guardant Health Inc (GH) Insider Updates

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Guardant Health Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Guardant Health Inc is 4.31%, while institutional ownership is 97.22%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 04 ’24, was worth 2,787. In this transaction Director of this company sold 100 shares at a rate of $27.87, taking the stock ownership to the 4,621 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 18 ’24, when Company’s Chief Information Officer bought 2,187 for $17.82, making the entire transaction worth $38,963. This insider now owns 12,722 shares in total.

Guardant Health Inc (GH) Performance Highlights and Predictions

Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 6/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted -0.73 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at -0.94) by 0.21. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.7 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 23.98% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 29.20% during the next five years compared to -8.88% drop over the previous five years of trading.

Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ: GH) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Guardant Health Inc (GH) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 6.07. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.98.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -4.09, a number that is poised to hit -0.74 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -2.84 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Guardant Health Inc (GH)

The latest stats from [Guardant Health Inc, GH] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.51 million was inferior to 2.06 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 43.40%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.97.

During the past 100 days, Guardant Health Inc’s (GH) raw stochastic average was set at 3.91%, which indicates a significant decrease from 28.09% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 37.55% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 57.76% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $24.51, while its 200-day Moving Average is $24.16. Now, the first resistance to watch is $21.29. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $21.74. The third major resistance level sits at $22.01. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $20.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $20.31. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $19.86.

Guardant Health Inc (NASDAQ: GH) Key Stats

There are 122,369K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 2.56 billion. As of now, sales total 563,950 K while income totals -479,450 K. Its latest quarter income was 177,240 K while its last quarter net income were -102,630 K.