Garmin Ltd. (NYSE:GRMN – Get Free Report) has earned an average rating of “Reduce” from the six research firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The average 12-month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $158.50.
A number of brokerages have commented on GRMN. Barclays cut shares of Garmin from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and reduced their price target for the company from $181.00 to $133.00 in a research report on Friday, September 13th. Morgan Stanley cut shares of Garmin from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating and decreased their target price for the stock from $155.00 to $138.00 in a research report on Monday, October 7th. StockNews.com lowered shares of Garmin from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 12th. Finally, Tigress Financial lifted their price objective on Garmin from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Thursday, September 19th.
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Insider Activity at Garmin
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Select Equity Group L.P. raised its holdings in Garmin by 0.6% in the second quarter. Select Equity Group L.P. now owns 2,006,563 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $326,909,000 after purchasing an additional 11,666 shares in the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its stake in shares of Garmin by 0.8% in the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,735,623 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $282,761,000 after acquiring an additional 13,968 shares in the last quarter. Boston Partners boosted its stake in Garmin by 4.3% during the first quarter. Boston Partners now owns 1,416,130 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $210,799,000 after acquiring an additional 58,343 shares in the last quarter. Marshall Wace LLP boosted its stake in Garmin by 34.0% during the second quarter. Marshall Wace LLP now owns 1,098,443 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock worth $178,958,000 after acquiring an additional 278,990 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Captrust Financial Advisors increased its stake in shares of Garmin by 20.2% during the first quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 839,537 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company’s stock valued at $124,982,000 after purchasing an additional 141,001 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 73.41% of the company’s stock.
Garmin Stock Performance
Garmin stock opened at $162.30 on Friday. Garmin has a fifty-two week low of $99.61 and a fifty-two week high of $184.42. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $173.31 and its 200-day moving average price is $166.17. The stock has a market cap of $31.17 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.85 and a beta of 0.99.
Garmin (NYSE:GRMN – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 31st. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $1.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.40 by $0.18. The firm had revenue of $1.51 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.42 billion. Garmin had a return on equity of 17.09% and a net margin of 24.36%. The company’s revenue was up 14.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.45 earnings per share. On average, analysts predict that Garmin will post 6.08 earnings per share for the current year.
Garmin Company Profile
Garmin Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes a range of wireless devices worldwide. Its Fitness segment offers running and multi-sport watches; cycling products; smartwatch devices; scales and monitors; and fitness accessories. This segment also provides Garmin Connect and Garmin Connect Mobile, which are web and mobile platforms where users can track and analyze their fitness, activities and workouts, and wellness data; and Connect IQ, an application development platform.
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