Quest Diagnostics Up 2.7 percent Since Last Earnings Report Can It Continue?

DGX Stock  USD 162.66  0.66  0.40%   
Slightly above 55% of Quest Diagnostics' investor base is interested to short. The analysis of overall sentiment of trading Quest Diagnostics Incorporated stock suggests that many investors are impartial at this time. Quest Diagnostics' investing sentiment can be driven by a variety of factors including economic data, Quest Diagnostics' earnings reports, geopolitical events, and overall market trends.
  
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Quest Diagnostics Current Investor Sentiment

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Quest Diagnostics Historical Investor Sentiment

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Quest Diagnostics' market sentiment shows the aggregated news analyzed to detect positive and negative mentions from the text and comments. The data is normalized to provide daily scores for Quest Diagnostics and other traded tickers. The bigger the bubble, the more accurate the estimated score. Higher bars for a given day show more participation in the average Quest Diagnostics news discussions. The higher the estimate score, the more favorable the investor's outlook on Quest Diagnostics.

Quest Diagnostics Fundamental Analysis

We analyze Quest Diagnostics' financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Quest Diagnostics using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Quest Diagnostics based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.

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Net Income Comparative Analysis

Quest Diagnostics is currently under evaluation in net income category among its peers. Net income is the profit of a company for the reporting period, which is derived after taking revenues and gains and subtracting all expenses and losses. Net income is one of the most-watched numbers by money managers as well as individual investors.

Quest Diagnostics Potential Pair-trading

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Peers

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