Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE:VRX)‘s shares have oscillated between a high of $-63.19% and a low of $45.01% over the last 12 months.
For the last 50 days, the stock has risen to a peak price of $-28.91% and hit a bottom of $45.01%.
The Barchart Technical Opinion rating is a 32% Buy with a Strengthening short term outlook on maintaining the current direction. Longer term, the trend strength is Strong.
Recently, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE:VRX) announced appointments to the dermatology leadership team of Michael McMyne, who has joined as vice president of Sales, and Stacey Williams, who has joined as vice president of Marketing. Additionally, the company announced Lainie Keller has joined as vice president of Corporate Communications.
On moving volumes measurements, the stock’s 20-Day Simple Moving Average price is $28.02%, 50-Day Simple Moving Average is $12.91% and 200-Day Simple Moving Average is $-32.72%.
The stock is now moved -17.01% for the year. Over the last six months it has moved -37.17%, compared with a movement of -15.44% for the quarter, 25.65%% for the month and 16.88% for the week.
The average volume, usually a measurement of three months average, is 21.10M. Relative volume on the other hand is 6.52. In total, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. has 339.75M shares outstanding, with 338.25M of them being free float shares.
The stock?s short float stands at 14.56%, working out to a short ratio of 2.33.
Institutional investors own 66.80% of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.’s equity, while insiders own 2.30% of the stock. In the last couple of months, the stock has seen 20.79% institutional investor transactions, compared to -70.36% insider transactions.
How have the investors seen their investment in the stock change? Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.’s return on equity for the trailing 12 months is -52.70% and return on investments for a similar period calculates to -1.60%. The company posted return on assets of -5.20% for the same trailing 12 months period.
Does Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. have the ability to keep its doors open ? at least over the short-term? The compay’s current ratio at the end of the most recent quarter was 1.40, while quick ratio for the same period was 1.10.
For the matters of debt, the company’s Long Term Debt/Equity for the most recent quarter was 9.47 and Total Debt/Equity for the same period was 9.47.