With gains of 11.3%, Proto Labs was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $31.19 and have logged a 1.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:
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Proto Labs has moved -39.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -1.5%
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PRLB has an average analyst rating of hold and is -21.53% away from its mean target price of $39.75 per share
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Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-3.7
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Proto Labs has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -8.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
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Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.23 and its forward P/E ratio is 25.4
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The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.2 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
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Proto Labs is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.49 and an average P/B of 3.78
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The company has a free cash flow of $53.1 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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Proto Labs, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an e-commerce digital manufacturer of custom prototypes and on-demand production parts in the worldwide.