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Many investors also have a go-to methodology that helps guide their buy and sell decisions. One way to find winning stocks based on your preferred way of investing is to use the Zacks Style Scores, which are indicators that rate stocks based on three widely-followed investing types: value, growth, and momentum.
Different than value or momentum investors, growth-oriented investors are concerned with a stock's future prospects, and the overall financial health and strength of a company. Thus, they'll want to focus on the Growth Style Score, which analyzes characteristics like projected and historical earnings, sales, and cash flow to find stocks that will see sustainable growth over time.
Based in Venlo, the Netherlands, QIAGEN N.V. is one of the world's leading providers of technologies and products for the separation, purification and handling of nucleic acids DNA/RNA. The company provides innovative technologies and products for pre-analytical sample preparation and molecular diagnostics solutions. It has developed a comprehensive portfolio of over 500 proprietary, consumable products, and automated solutions for sample collection.
QGEN sits at a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), holds a Growth Style Score of A, and has a VGM Score of A. Earnings and sales are forecasted to increase 7.8% and 4.2% year-over-year, respectively.
Five analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.03 to $2.35 per share for 2025. QGEN boasts an average earnings surprise of 4.9%.
On a historic basis, Qiagen has generated cash flow growth of 3.3%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 0% this year.
With solid fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and top-tier Growth and VGM Style Scores, QGEN should be on investors' short lists.
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