Quidel Stock Forecast - Naive Prediction

QDEL Stock  USD 28.09  2.47  8.08%   
Quidel Stock outlook is based on your current time horizon. Although Quidel's naive historical forecasting may sometimes provide an important future outlook for the firm, we recommend always cross-verifying it against solid analysis of Quidel's systematic risk associated with finding meaningful patterns of Quidel fundamentals over time.
As of now, the relative strength index (RSI) of Quidel's share price is approaching 45 indicating that the stock is in nutural position, most likellhy at or near its support level. The main point of RSI analysis is to track how fast people are buying or selling Quidel, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 45

 Impartial

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Quidel's future price could yield a significant profit. Please, note that this module is not intended to be used solely to calculate an intrinsic value of Quidel and does not consider all of the tangible or intangible factors available from Quidel's fundamental data. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Quidel, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Quidel's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.77)
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
0.9224
EPS Estimate Current Year
2.0785
EPS Estimate Next Year
2.5065
Wall Street Target Price
38.3333
Using Quidel hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Quidel from the perspective of Quidel response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Quidel using Quidel's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Quidel using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Quidel's stock price.

Quidel Short Interest

An investor who is long Quidel may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about Quidel and may potentially protect profits, hedge Quidel with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
28.2073
Short Percent
0.275
Short Ratio
13.74
Shares Short Prior Month
11.3 M
50 Day MA
28.304

Quidel Relative Strength Index

The Naive Prediction forecasted value of Quidel on the next trading day is expected to be 25.96 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.23 and the sum of the absolute errors of 75.27.

Quidel Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Quidel's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Quidel. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Quidel can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Quidel. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Quidel's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Quidel.

Quidel Implied Volatility

    
  0.79  
Quidel's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Quidel stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Quidel's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Quidel stock will not fluctuate a lot when Quidel's options are near their expiration.
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of Quidel on the next trading day is expected to be 25.96 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.23 and the sum of the absolute errors of 75.27.

Quidel after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 28.09  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Quidel to cross-verify your projections.
For more information on how to buy Quidel Stock please use our How to buy in Quidel Stock guide.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Quidel contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Quidel will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0494% per day over the life of the 2026-03-20 option contract. With Quidel trading at USD 28.09, that is roughly USD 0.0139 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Quidel's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Quidel options at the current volatility level of 0.79%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-03-20 Quidel Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast Quidel's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in Quidel's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for Quidel stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current Quidel's open interest, investors have to compare it to Quidel's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of Quidel is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in Quidel. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

Quidel Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Quidel price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Quidel using various technical indicators. When you analyze Quidel charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

Quidel Cash Forecast

To forecast cash or other financial indicators, analysts must employ diverse statistical methods, techniques, and algorithms. This approach allows them to detect underlying patterns in the Quidel's financial statements, predicting their influence on future market prices.
 
Cash  
First Reported
1986-03-31
Previous Quarter
151.7 M
Current Value
98.1 M
Quarterly Volatility
172.5 M
 
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Credit Downgrade
 
Yuan Drop
 
Covid
 
Interest Hikes
A naive forecasting model for Quidel is a special case of the moving average forecasting where the number of periods used for smoothing is one. Therefore, the forecast of Quidel value for a given trading day is simply the observed value for the previous period. Due to the simplistic nature of the naive forecasting model, it can only be used to forecast up to one period.

Quidel Naive Prediction Price Forecast For the 26th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Naive Prediction forecasted value of Quidel on the next trading day is expected to be 25.96 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.23, mean absolute percentage error of 2.56, and the sum of the absolute errors of 75.27.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Quidel Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Quidel's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

Quidel Stock Forecast Pattern

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Quidel Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting Quidel's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. Quidel's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 20.97 and 30.96, respectively. We have considered Quidel's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
28.09
25.96
Expected Value
30.96
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Naive Prediction forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Quidel stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Quidel stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria119.0493
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation1.2339
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0464
SAESum of the absolute errors75.2685
This model is not at all useful as a medium-long range forecasting tool of Quidel. This model is simplistic and is included partly for completeness and partly because of its simplicity. It is unlikely that you'll want to use this model directly to predict Quidel. Instead, consider using either the moving average model or the more general weighted moving average model with a higher (i.e., greater than 1) number of periods, and possibly a different set of weights.

Predictive Modules for Quidel

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as Quidel. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Quidel's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
23.0928.0933.09
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
18.3723.3728.37
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
26.3830.9635.54
Details
8 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
34.8838.3342.55
Details

Quidel After-Hype Price Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Quidel at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Quidel or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Quidel, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Quidel Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Quidel's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Quidel's historical news coverage. Quidel's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 23.09 and 33.09, respectively. We have considered Quidel's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
28.09
28.09
After-hype Price
33.09
Upside
Quidel is not too volatile at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Quidel is based on 3 months time horizon.

Quidel Stock Price Outlook Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Quidel is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Quidel backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Quidel, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.05 
5.00
  0.07 
  0.01 
10 Events / Month
7 Events / Month
In about 10 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
28.09
28.09
0.00 
367.65  
Notes

Quidel Hype Timeline

Quidel is at this time traded for 28.09. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.07, and average elasticity to hype of competition of -0.01. Quidel is forecasted not to react to the next headline, with the price staying at about the same level, and average media hype impact volatility is over 100%. The immediate return on the next news is forecasted to be very small, whereas the daily expected return is at this time at 0.05%. %. The volatility of related hype on Quidel is about 1901.14%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 28.08. About 99.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The company has price-to-book ratio of 0.94. Typically companies with comparable Price to Book (P/B) are able to outperform the market in the long run. Quidel recorded a loss per share of 17.41. The entity last dividend was issued on the 29th of October 2010. Given the investment horizon of 90 days the next forecasted press release will be in about 10 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Quidel to cross-verify your projections.
For more information on how to buy Quidel Stock please use our How to buy in Quidel Stock guide.

Quidel Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Quidel's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Quidel's future price movements. Getting to know how Quidel's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Quidel may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
LMATLeMaitre Vascular(0.13)12 per month 0.00 (0.12) 2.17 (2.30) 8.28 
VRDNViridian Therapeutics(0.04)10 per month 1.14  0.21  5.57 (2.19) 15.86 
ATRCAtriCure 0.00 0 per month 3.03  0.03  4.34 (4.08) 18.00 
TWSTTwist Bioscience Corp(0.71)13 per month 3.39  0.10  7.37 (6.18) 17.30 
GPCRStructure Therapeutics American(0.04)20 per month 2.88  0.17  8.96 (5.94) 110.34 
QUREUniqure NV 0.47 31 per month 0.00 (0.16) 7.15 (10.75) 52.40 
XRAYDentsply Sirona(0.13)6 per month 2.60 (0.02) 4.84 (2.94) 13.76 
NHCNational HealthCare(2.20)9 per month 1.49  0.10  2.84 (2.07) 9.28 
EWTXEdgewise Therapeutics 0.47 10 per month 4.07  0.16  14.33 (5.57) 38.85 
AZTAAzenta Inc(0.32)9 per month 1.86  0.11  3.81 (3.24) 22.17 

Other Forecasting Options for Quidel

For every potential investor in Quidel, whether a beginner or expert, Quidel's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. Quidel Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in Quidel. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying Quidel's price trends.

Quidel Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Quidel stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Quidel could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Quidel by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

Quidel Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how Quidel stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading Quidel shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying Quidel stock market strength indicators, traders can identify Quidel entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

Quidel Risk Indicators

The analysis of Quidel's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Quidel's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting quidel stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for Quidel

The number of cover stories for Quidel depends on current market conditions and Quidel's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that Quidel is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about Quidel's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

Quidel Short Properties

Quidel's future price predictability will typically decrease when Quidel's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of Quidel often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential Quidel's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. Quidel's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding67.2 M
Cash And Short Term Investments98.3 M
When determining whether Quidel is a strong investment it is important to analyze Quidel's competitive position within its industry, examining market share, product or service uniqueness, and competitive advantages. Beyond financials and market position, potential investors should also consider broader economic conditions, industry trends, and any regulatory or geopolitical factors that may impact Quidel's future performance. For an informed investment choice regarding Quidel Stock, refer to the following important reports:
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Quidel to cross-verify your projections.
For more information on how to buy Quidel Stock please use our How to buy in Quidel Stock guide.
You can also try the Portfolio Volatility module to check portfolio volatility and analyze historical return density to properly model market risk.
Is Health Care Equipment & Supplies space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Quidel. If investors know Quidel will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Quidel listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.77)
Earnings Share
(17.41)
Revenue Per Share
40.124
Quarterly Revenue Growth
(0.04)
Return On Assets
0.0142
The market value of Quidel is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Quidel that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Quidel's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Quidel's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Quidel's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Quidel's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Quidel's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Quidel is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Quidel's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.