Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (MD) saw an uptrend of 5.30% in the recent trading with $15.5 being its most recent. The current price level -12.28% lower than the highest price of $17.67 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 57.68% higher than the lowest price of $9.83 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on MD appeared in (StockStory) under the title “Pediatrix Medical Group’s Q2 Earnings Call: Our Top 5 Analyst Questions”.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -0.83% below one month high and is +30.91% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (MD)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $13.48 while that of 5-day is reading $14.63.
Daily rise and fall of price influence many of the traders, and in order to overcome the fluctuating effect of that and to watch the stock closely, traders focus more on stock’s 200-day moving average. At various points in trading activity, investors are more likely to be making use of that measure as a strong indicator in figuring out their support and resistance levels, and MD’s SMA-200 as of now is $13.94.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 3 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.25 for the stock.
Pediatrix Medical Group Inc Earnings – What Happened With MD
Coming around sales and income figures on MD Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (MD) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 19.70% for net revenue.
MD – Pediatrix Medical Group Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (NYSE:MD)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.37 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (MD) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 19.70% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.44.
Pediatrix Medical Group Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 86.85 million. MD does have institutional investors; and they hold 89.10% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. was the top most holder in Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (NYSE:MD) with an ownership of 13.69 million shares of the company or 16.432 of the stake worth $103.38 million. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 12.6655 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $79.69 million for having 10.55 million shares in hand.
RUBRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 9.7802 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 366.0 institutions which have possession in MD’s shares.
Key Metrics forMD
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Pediatrix Medical Group Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.78.
Technical Analysis of Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (NYSE:MD) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Pediatrix Medical Group Inc (MD), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 820,015 shares and 50% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 716,746 shares. And to end, MD’s 100-day average volume is 830,039 shares with 50% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock.
