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Is Boston Scientific Corp (BSX) a good stock to buy now?

Boston Scientific Corp (NYSE: BSX) is 53.47% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $52.99 and a high of $88.94 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The BSX stock was last observed hovering at around $88.48 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.24%.

Currently trading at $88.72, the stock is 2.88% and 4.51% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 4.94 million and changing 0.27% at the moment leaves the stock 17.44% off its SMA200. BSX registered 72.07% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 20.72%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $84.8912 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $75.54355.

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The stock witnessed a 1.34% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 16.10%, and is 3.72% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.78% over the week and 2.18% over the month.

Boston Scientific Corp (BSX) has around 48000 employees, a market worth around $130.76B and $15.91B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 73.38 and Fwd P/E is 31.81. Profit margin for the company is 11.26%. Distance from 52-week low is 67.43% and -0.25% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (5.91%).

with sales reaching $4.4B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 20.02% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 16.40% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 18.00% in year-over-year returns.

Boston Scientific Corp (BSX) Top Institutional Holders

1940.0 institutions hold shares in Boston Scientific Corp (BSX), with institutional investors hold 93.26% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 1.47B, and float is at 1.46B with Short Float at 0.88%. Institutions hold 93.10% of the Float.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is FMR LLC with over 141.46 million shares valued at $10.89 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.6337% of the BSX Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 129.87 million shares valued at $10.0 billion to account for 8.8444 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 126.42 million shares representing 8.6093% and valued at over $9.74 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.1853 of the shares totaling 61.46 million with a market value of $4.73 billion.

Boston Scientific Corp (BSX) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Sorenson John Bradley, the company’s EVP, Global Operations. SEC filings show that Sorenson John Bradley sold 30,580 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 08 ’24 at a price of $87.66 per share for a total of $2.68 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 39706.0 shares.

Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 05 ’24, Mahoney Michael F (Chairman, President & CEO) disposed off 162,778 shares at an average price of $84.75 for $13.79 million. The insider now directly holds 1,521,205 shares of Boston Scientific Corp (BSX).

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