Is Quest Diagnostics stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
Right now our advanced algorithms say:
Do the analyst corps agree?
Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, Quest Diagnostics pays dividends. Last time was Wednesday 29th of January 2025 where the investors holding the stock on Tuesday 14th of January 2025 were paid $0.75 per share. Over the last 85 times between 2004 and 2025, Quest Diagnostics has paid $29.32 with an average of $0.34 per share.
Sorry, we do not have any analyst data for this ticker
We cannot find data for Quest Diagnostics 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Friday 22nd of November 2019 when the price was $105.91, you would have made a profit of $55.41 per share or 52.32%
Yes, the average daily trading liquidity for Quest Diagnostics is $778 292 thousand. You should therefore be able to get in and out of your positions relatively fast.
Quest Diagnostics has a normal ratio of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at some risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a normal cash flow to debt ratio of 0.22, the company's ability to pay off the debt is normal. Quest Diagnostics has a good net profit margin of 8.82% and should have high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for Quest Diagnostics to be low [0.4 of 1]
US inflation for August 2024 was 0.19%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.59%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 4.41 and is up 0.05 over the last 30 days.