Viasat, Inc (VSAT) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $11.34, with 3.44 million shares of worth about $39.0 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 26.00% during that period and on May 15, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 7.79%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 129.12M shares, out of which, 111.92M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 24.07% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 32.79%. Year-to-date (YTD), VSAT shares are showing a performance of 33.25% which decreased to -34.72% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $6.69 but also hit the highest price of $26.70 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Viasat, Inc shares is 2.61 million. The stock is currently trading 21.38% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 19.29% for SMA50 and it goes to 3.20% higher than SMA200.
Viasat, Inc (NASDAQ: VSAT) currently have 129.12M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.46% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.46B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.06. It has posted earnings per share of -$3.27 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.60 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.58. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for VSAT, volatility over the week remained 6.55% while standing at 5.59% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Viasat, Inc (VSAT) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.07 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.19 and it is 0.63 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.14 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 -0.24 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -342.92% while it is estimated to increase by 54.29% 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 Deutsche Bank on March 24, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $15 to it. Coverage by Cantor Fitzgerald stated Viasat, Inc (VSAT) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 24, 2025, suggesting a price target of $12 for the stock. On October 15, 2024, Needham Reiterated their recommendations, while on September 17, 2024, JP Morgan Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $15. Stock get an Overweight rating from JP Morgan on October 17, 2023.
