Shares of Medical Specialities company Exact Sciences jumped 3.2% today. With many investors piling into EXAS without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:
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Exact Sciences has moved 107.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.0%
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EXAS has an average analyst rating of buy and is -38.98% away from its mean target price of $109.0 per share
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Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-2.43
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Exact Sciences has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -27.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
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Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-1.07 and its forward P/E ratio is -62.2
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The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.93 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
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Exact Sciences is part of the Health Care sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.45 and an average P/B of 4.16
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The company has a free cash flow of $-62333248, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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Exact Sciences Corporation provides cancer screening and diagnostic test products in the United States and internationally. The company offers Cologuard, a non-invasive stool-based DNA screening test to detect DNA and hemoglobin biomarkers associated with colorectal cancer and pre-cancer. It also provides Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score Test; Oncotype DX Breast DCIS Score Test; Oncotype DX Colon Recurrence Score Test; OncoExTra Test for tumor profiling for patients with advanced, metastatic, refractory, relapsed, or recurrent cancer; and Covid-19 testing services. The company's pipeline products focus on enhancing the Cologuard test's performance characteristics and developing blood and other fluid-based tests. It has license agreements with MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research; and Hologic, Inc. Exact Sciences Corporation was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.