ICON PLC Earnings Estimate
| ICLR Stock | USD 214.25 1.49 0.70% |
ICON PLC Revenue Breakdown by Earning Segment
By analyzing ICON PLC's earnings estimates, investors can diagnose different trends across ICON PLC's analyst sentiment over time as well as compare current estimates against different timeframes. At this time, ICON PLC's Gross Profit is relatively stable compared to the past year. As of 11/22/2024, Pretax Profit Margin is likely to grow to 0.13, while Operating Profit Margin is likely to drop 0.1.
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ICON PLC Earnings per Share Projection vs Actual
About ICON PLC Earnings Estimate
The earnings estimate module is a useful tool to check what professional financial analysts are assuming about the future of ICON PLC earnings. We show available consensus EPS estimates for the upcoming years and quarters. Investors can also examine how these consensus opinions have evolved historically. We show current ICON PLC estimates, future projections, as well as estimates 1, 2, and three years ago. Investors can search for a specific entity to conduct investment planning and build diversified portfolios. Please note, earnings estimates provided by Macroaxis are the average expectations of expert analysts that we track. If a given stock such as ICON PLC fails to match professional earnings estimates, it usually performs purely. Wall Street refers to that as a 'negative surprise.' If a company 'beats' future estimates, it's usually called an 'upside surprise.'
Please read more on our stock advisor page.| Last Reported | Projected for Next Year | ||
| Retained Earnings | 2.4 B | 2.6 B | |
| Earnings Yield | 0.03 | 0.03 | |
| Price Earnings Ratio | 37.95 | 39.85 | |
| Price Earnings To Growth Ratio | 1.87 | 1.96 |
Pair Trading with ICON PLC
One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if ICON PLC position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in ICON PLC will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving together with ICON Stock
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The ability to find closely correlated positions to ICON PLC could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace ICON PLC when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back ICON PLC - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling ICON PLC to buy it.
The correlation of ICON PLC is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as ICON PLC moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if ICON PLC moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for ICON PLC can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.Additional Tools for ICON Stock Analysis
When running ICON PLC's price analysis, check to measure ICON PLC's market volatility, profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, growth potential, financial leverage, and other vital indicators. We have many different tools that can be utilized to determine how healthy ICON PLC is operating at the current time. Most of ICON PLC's value examination focuses on studying past and present price action to predict the probability of ICON PLC's future price movements. You can analyze the entity against its peers and the financial market as a whole to determine factors that move ICON PLC's price. Additionally, you may evaluate how the addition of ICON PLC to your portfolios can decrease your overall portfolio volatility.