MDA Space (TSE:MDA) Sets New 12-Month High After Analyst Upgrade

Shares of MDA Space Ltd. (TSE:MDAGet Free Report) reached a new 52-week high during trading on Monday after Scotia raised their price target on the stock from C$49.00 to C$53.00. Scotia currently has a sector outperform rating on the stock. MDA Space traded as high as C$51.25 and last traded at C$51.01, with a volume of 1127398 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at C$47.26.

A number of other analysts have also recently commented on the stock. ATB Cormark Capital Markets lowered their target price on shares of MDA Space from C$54.00 to C$53.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday. Stifel Nicolaus lifted their target price on shares of MDA Space from C$48.00 to C$57.00 in a research note on Thursday, March 5th. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on shares of MDA Space from C$51.00 to C$58.00 in a research note on Friday. Scotiabank upgraded shares of MDA Space to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, March 19th. Finally, Desjardins lifted their target price on shares of MDA Space from C$53.00 to C$55.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating and seven have given a Buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of C$51.33.

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MDA Space Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 20.62, a quick ratio of 1.00 and a current ratio of 0.80. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is C$42.03 and its 200 day simple moving average is C$34.15. The firm has a market capitalization of C$7.08 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 60.79 and a beta of -0.92.

MDA Space (TSE:MDAGet Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported C$0.38 EPS for the quarter. MDA Space had a net margin of 6.02% and a return on equity of 7.24%. The business had revenue of C$464.10 million during the quarter. Sell-side analysts forecast that MDA Space Ltd. will post 0.9605084 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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Building the space between proven and possible, MDA Space (TSX:MDA; NYSE:MDA) is a trusted mission partner to the global defence and space industry. A robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 55-year+ story of world firsts and more than 450 missions, MDA Space is a global leader in communications satellites, Earth and space observation, and space exploration and infrastructure. The global MDA Space team of more than 4,000 space experts has the knowledge and know-how to turn an audacious customer vision into an achievable mission – bringing to bear a one-of-a-kind mix of experience, engineering excellence and wide-eyed wonder that’s been in our DNA since day one.

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