ICU Medical Earnings Estimate

The earnings estimate module is a useful tool to check what professional financial analysts are assuming about the future of ICU Medical 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 ICU Medical 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 ICU Medical 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.'

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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 ICU Medical. If investors know ICU 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 ICU Medical listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.

The market value of ICU Medical is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of ICU that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of ICU Medical's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is ICU Medical'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 ICU Medical's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect ICU Medical'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 ICU Medical's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if ICU Medical is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, ICU Medical'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.