Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Zebra Technologies Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise asset intelligence solutions in the automatic identification and data capture solutions industry worldwide. It operates in two segments, Asset Intelligence & Tracking, and Enterprise Visibility & Mobility. The company designs, manufactures, and sells printers that produce labels, wristbands, tickets, receipts, and plastic cards; dye-sublimination thermal card printers that produce images, which are used for personal identification, access control, and financial transactions; radio frequency identification device (RFID) printers that encode data into passive RFID transponders; accessories and options for printers, including carrying cases, vehicle mounts, and battery chargers; stock and customized thermal labels, receipts, ribbons, plastic cards, and RFID tags for printers; and temperature-monitoring labels primarily used in vaccine distribution. It also provides various maintenance, technical support, repair, and managed and professional services; fixed readers, RFID enabled mobile computers, and RFID sleds; tags, sensors, exciters, middleware software, and application software; and physical inventory management solutions, and rugged and enterprise-grade mobile computing products and accessories, as well as real-time location systems and services. In addition, the company offers barcode scanners and imagers, RFID readers, industrial machine vision cameras, and fixed industrial scanners; workforce management, workflow execution and task management, and prescriptive analytics, as well as communications and collaboration solutions; and cloud-based software subscriptions, retail, and robotics automation solutions. The company serves retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, public sector, and other industries through direct sales force, and network of channel partners. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $382.85 to $395.03
• 50-Day Range: $360.09 to $411.94
• 52-Week Range: $233.95 to $413.43
• Volume: 826,392 shs
• Average Volume: 360,222 shs
• Market Capitalization: $20.27 billion
• P/E Ratio: 53.47
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $398.55
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Zebra Technologies Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Zebra Technologies scored higher than 83% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 50th out of 178 stocks in the industrial products sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.4 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Zebra Technologies has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.75, and is based on 7 buy ratings, 4 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Zebra Technologies has been the subject of 7 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 19.68%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Zebra Technologies are expected to grow by 19.68% in the coming year, from $12.40 to $14.84 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Zebra Technologies is 53.47, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 116.04.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Zebra Technologies is 53.47, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Industrial Products sector average P/E ratio of about 21.08.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Zebra Technologies has a P/B Ratio of 6.65. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.10% of the float of Zebra Technologies has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Zebra Technologies has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1.6, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Zebra Technologies has recently increased by 12.35%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Zebra Technologies does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Zebra Technologies does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: 2.6 / 5
• Environmental Score: -1.88

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.10% of the float of Zebra Technologies has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Zebra Technologies has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1.6, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Zebra Technologies has recently increased by 12.35%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.7 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.94

News Sentiment

Zebra Technologies has a news sentiment score of 0.94. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.73 average news sentiment score of Industrial Products companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 13 news articles for Zebra Technologies this week, compared to 9 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 4 people have searched for ZBRA on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -56% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

Only 7 people have added Zebra Technologies to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of 0% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Zebra Technologies insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $701,238.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 1.06% of the stock of Zebra Technologies is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

91.03% of the stock of Zebra Technologies is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

ZBRA Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have ZBRA shares performed this year?

Zebra Technologies' stock was trading at $273.33 at the beginning of the year. Since then, ZBRA stock has increased by 43.8% and is now trading at $393.04.
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How were Zebra Technologies' earnings last quarter?

Zebra Technologies Co. (NASDAQ:ZBRA) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 29th. The industrial products company reported $3.49 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.92 by $0.57. The company's quarterly revenue was up 31.3% compared to the same quarter last year.
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Does Zebra Technologies have any subsidiaries?

Zebra Technologies subsidiaries include Profitect, and Xplore.

Who are Zebra Technologies' major shareholders?

Top institutional investors of Zebra Technologies include State Street Corp (4.17%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.42%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.01%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Anders Gustafsson, Bill Burns, Frank Blaise Modruson, Nathan Andrew Winters, Jeffrey F Schmitz, Colleen M O'sullivan, Michael Cho and Stephen Edgar Williams.
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How do I buy shares of Zebra Technologies?

Shares of ZBRA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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What other stocks do shareholders of Zebra Technologies own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Zebra Technologies investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), Salesforce (CRM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Humana (HUM), American Water Works (AWK) and Tesla (TSLA).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 10/29/2024
• Today: 12/20/2024
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Industrial Products
• Industry: General industrial machinery & equipment
• Sub-Industry: Office Electronics
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:ZBRA
• CUSIP: 98920710
• CIK: 877212
• Web: www.zebra.com
• Phone: (847) 634-6700
• Fax: 847-913-8766
• Employees: 9,750
• Year Founded: 1969

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: $398.55
• High Stock Price Target: $445.00
• Low Stock Price Target: $305.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +1.4%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.75
• Research Coverage: 12 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): $7.35
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 53.47
• Forward P/E Ratio: 31.70
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: $296 million
• Net Margins: 8.20%
• Pretax Margin: 9.21%
• Return on Equity: 15.56%
• Return on Assets: 6.76%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.61
• Current Ratio: 1.37
• Quick Ratio: 0.96

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $4.66 billion
• Price / Sales: 4.35
• Cash Flow: $11.98 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 32.82
• Book Value: $59.09 per share
• Price / Book: 6.65

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 51,580,000
• Free Float: 51,033,000
• Market Cap: $20.27 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.63