How to buy ICON Public Limited Company stock

ICON Public Limited Company is a diagnostics & research business based in the US. ICON Public Limited Company shares (ICLR) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. ICON Public Limited Company employs 15,250 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.8 billion.

How to buy shares in ICON Public Limited Company

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for ICON Public Limited Company. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ICLR. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until ICON Public Limited Company reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of ICON Public Limited Company, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of ICON Public Limited Company. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

ICON Public Limited Company share price

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ICON Public Limited Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-24.

52-week range	USD$104.275 - USD$223.62
50-day moving average	USD$208.5542
200-day moving average	USD$195.7678
Wall St. target price	USD$206.43
PE ratio	34.6833
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$6.015

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ICON Public Limited Company financials

Revenue TTM	USD$2.8 billion
Operating margin TTM	14.66%
Gross profit TTM	USD$862.2 million
Return on assets TTM	8.71%
Return on equity TTM	20.42%
Profit margin	11.95%
Book value	$32.423
Market capitalisation	USD$11 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting ICON Public Limited Company shares

There are currently 670,867 ICON Public Limited Company shares held short by investors – that's known as ICON Public Limited Company's "short interest". This figure is 26.9% down from 918,226 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting ICON Public Limited Company shares can be evaluated.

ICON Public Limited Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

ICON Public Limited Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of ICON Public Limited Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of ICON Public Limited Company shares traded daily (recently around 203910.94224924). ICON Public Limited Company's SIR currently stands at 3.29. In other words for every 100,000 ICON Public Limited Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3290 shares are currently held short.

However ICON Public Limited Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of ICON Public Limited Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable ICON Public Limited Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case ICON Public Limited Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 ICON Public Limited Company shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0129% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable ICON Public Limited Company shares, roughly 13 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against ICON Public Limited Company.

Find out more about how you can short ICON Public Limited Company stock.

Have ICON Public Limited Company's shares ever split?

ICON Public Limited Company's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 13 August 2008. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your ICON Public Limited Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for ICON Public Limited Company shares which in turn could have impacted ICON Public Limited Company's share price.

ICON Public Limited Company share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, ICON Public Limited Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $104.275 up to $223.62. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while ICON Public Limited Company's is 0.8474. This would suggest that ICON Public Limited Company's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

ICON Public Limited Company overview

ICON Public Limited Company, a clinical research organization, provides outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries in Ireland, rest of Europe, the United States, and internationally. It specializes in the strategic development, management, and analysis of programs that support various stages of the clinical development process from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. The company's clinical development services include product development planning, strategic consulting, study protocol preparation, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis, site feasibility, patient recruitment and retention, digital patient and site, project management, clinical operations/monitoring, patient centric monitoring, data management, and adaptive and virtual trial services. Its clinical development services also comprise medical imaging, biostatistics, medical affairs, pharmacovigilance, strategic regulatory, electronic endpoint adjudication, medical writing and publishing, interactive response technologies, functional, strategic resourcing central laboratory, bioanalytical laboratory, biomarket development, strategy and analytics, late phase research, patient centered science, and medical device and diagnostics research services, as well as access, commercialization, and communication services, and research trials for us government agencies. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of ICON Public Limited Company is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.246% of ICON Public Limited Company shares are held by insiders and 96.655% by institutions.

• How many people work for ICON Public Limited Company?

  Latest data suggests 15,250 work at ICON Public Limited Company.

• When does the fiscal year end for ICON Public Limited Company?

  ICON Public Limited Company's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is ICON Public Limited Company based?

  ICON Public Limited Company's address is: South County Business Park, Dublin, Ireland, 18

• What is ICON Public Limited Company's ISIN number?

  ICON Public Limited Company's international securities identification number is: IE0005711209

• What is ICON Public Limited Company's CUSIP number?

  ICON Public Limited Company's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 289900102