An Important Check-Up On Glaukos Corporation (NYSE: GKOS)

Glaukos Corporation (GKOS) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $83.54, with 4.56 million shares of worth about $380.62 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -37.69% during that period and on May 01, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -11.36%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 56.44M shares, out of which, 54.98M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -12.46% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -13.96%. Year-to-date (YTD), GKOS shares are showing a performance of -44.28% which decreased to -14.05% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $77.91 but also hit the highest price of $163.71 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Glaukos Corporation shares is 1.00 million. The stock is currently trading -7.53% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -17.42% for SMA50 and it goes to -34.68% lower than SMA200.

Glaukos Corporation (NYSE: GKOS) currently have 56.44M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 100.17% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $4.77B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.83. It has posted earnings per share of -$2.81 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 5.22 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GKOS, volatility over the week remained 5.24% while standing at 6.74% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Glaukos Corporation (GKOS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.28 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -0.25 and it is -0.06 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.32 which is -0.23 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -0.52 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 52.51% while it is estimated to increase by 97.57% in next year.

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 Wells Fargo on May 01, 2025 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $86 to it. Coverage by Mizuho stated Glaukos Corporation (GKOS) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on February 19, 2025, suggesting a price target of $200 for the stock. On December 11, 2024, Citigroup Upgrade their recommendations, while on December 06, 2024, UBS Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $182. Stock get an Underweight rating from Morgan Stanley on December 02, 2024.

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