Juniper Networks Inc (JNPR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $37.00, with 3.73 million shares of worth about $137.85 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 3.67% during that period and on December 19, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -0.75%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 330.90M shares, out of which, 327.09M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.80% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.47%. Year-to-date (YTD), JNPR shares are showing a performance of 25.51% which increased to 25.76% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $28.94 but also hit the highest price of $39.79 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Juniper Networks Inc shares is 4.14 million. The stock is currently trading 1.09% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.99% for SMA50 and it goes to -0.40% lower than SMA200.
Juniper Networks Inc (NYSE: JNPR) currently have 330.90M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 85.23% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $12.25B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.88. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 48.77, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.76 in the same period. Its PEG reads 8.13 and has Quick Ratio of 1.30 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.38. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for JNPR, volatility over the week remained 1.27% while standing at 1.39% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -27.19% while it is estimated to increase by 19.48% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 6.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -9.86% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Citigroup on September 24, 2024 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $40 to it. On October 10, 2023, JP Morgan Downgrade their recommendations, while on July 24, 2023, Raymond James Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $37. Stock get a Neutral rating from Exane BNP Paribas on July 20, 2023.
