Currently, there are 82.56M common shares owned by the public and among those 81.89M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 4.91% and -24.90% over the past three months. ICLR shares are trading -24.67% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -24.01% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $183.38 and touched a high of $347.72 over the same period. ICLR has an average intraday trading volume of 1.31 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.15%, -4.57%, and -26.92% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Icon Plc (NASDAQ: ICLR) shares accounts for 96.53% of the company’s 82.56M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $17.60B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.20. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 23.74, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $8.98. The company has a PEG of 2.47 and a Quick Ratio of 1.34 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.37. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.98% over the week and 3.00% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Icon Plc (ICLR) will achieve an EPS of 3.4 for the current quarter, 3.59 for the next quarter and 15.02 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 3.24 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 3.24. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 3.46 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 9.29%, and 6.96% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.62% over the next five years, compared to 4.42% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the ICLR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Robert W. Baird stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on October 24, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $340. Leerink Partners was of a view on September 18, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while Goldman gave the stock Buy rating on June 06, 2024, issuing a price target of $370. Truist on their part issued Buy rating on December 15, 2023.
