How to buy Mercury Systems stock | 68.72

Mercury Systems, Inc is an aerospace & defense business based in the US. Mercury Systems shares (MRCY) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Mercury Systems employs 1,979 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$824.9 million.

How to buy shares in Mercury Systems

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
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 Mercury Systems. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: MRCY. 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 Mercury Systems 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. At last close price of USD$68.72, 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 Mercury Systems, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Mercury Systems. 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.

How has coronavirus impacted Mercury Systems's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Mercury Systems's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$68.72, which is 19.24% down on its pre-crash value of USD$85.09 and 31.55% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$52.24.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Mercury Systems shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$729.74 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$878.24.

Mercury Systems share price

Use our graph to track the performance of MRCY stocks over time.

Mercury Systems shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-25.

Latest market close	USD$68.72
52-week range	USD$52.24 - USD$96.29
50-day moving average	USD$72.9386
200-day moving average	USD$77.0481
Wall St. target price	USD$90.5
PE ratio	46.1733
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.5

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Mercury Systems price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $68.72 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-16)	68.72
1 month (2020-10-26)	-8.57%
3 months (2020-08-24)	-9.92%
6 months (2020-05-22)	-18.04%

1 year (2019-11-22)	-2.12%
2 years (2018-11-23)	44.34%
3 years (2017-11-24)	31.30%
5 years (2015-11-24)	253.50%

Is Mercury Systems under- or over-valued?

Valuing Mercury Systems stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Mercury Systems's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Mercury Systems's P/E ratio

Mercury Systems's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 46x. In other words, Mercury Systems shares trade at around 46x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Mercury Systems's PEG ratio

Mercury Systems's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.6616. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Mercury Systems's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Mercury Systems's EBITDA

Mercury Systems's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$150.6 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Mercury Systems's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Mercury Systems financials

Revenue TTM	USD$824.9 million
Operating margin TTM	12.08%
Gross profit TTM	USD$358.6 million
Return on assets TTM	3.98%
Return on equity TTM	6.09%
Profit margin	9.97%
Book value	$25.577
Market capitalisation	USD$4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Mercury Systems shares

There are currently 1.1 million Mercury Systems shares held short by investors – that's known as Mercury Systems's "short interest". This figure is 1.8% down from 1.1 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Mercury Systems shares can be evaluated.

Mercury Systems's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Mercury Systems's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Mercury Systems shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Mercury Systems shares traded daily (recently around 228731.54506438). Mercury Systems's SIR currently stands at 4.66. In other words for every 100,000 Mercury Systems shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4660 shares are currently held short.

However Mercury Systems's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Mercury Systems shares, or, against the total number of tradable Mercury Systems shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Mercury Systems's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Mercury Systems shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0233% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Mercury Systems shares, roughly 23 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 Mercury Systems.

Find out more about how you can short Mercury Systems stock.

Mercury Systems share dividends

We're not expecting Mercury Systems to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Mercury Systems's shares ever split?

Mercury Systems's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 21 December 1999. 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 Mercury Systems shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Mercury Systems shares which in turn could have impacted Mercury Systems's share price.

Mercury Systems share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Mercury Systems's shares have ranged in value from as little as $52.24 up to $96.29. 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 Mercury Systems's is 1.0598. This would suggest that Mercury Systems's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Mercury Systems overview

Mercury Systems, Inc., a technology company, manufactures and sells components, modules, and subsystems in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company's products and solutions are deployed in approximately 300 programs with 25 defense prime contractors and commercial aviation customers. It offers components, including power amplifiers and limiters, switches, oscillators, filters, equalizers, digital and analog converters, chips, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, and memory and storage devices; modules and sub-assemblies, such as embedded processing modules and boards, switch fabric boards, high speed input/output boards, digital receiver boards, multi-chip modules, integrated radio frequency and microwave multi-function assemblies, tuners, and transceivers, as well as graphics and video processing, and Ethernet and input-output boards; and integrated subsystems. The company also designs, develops, and manufactures digital radio frequency memory units for various modern electronic warfare applications; radar environment simulation and test systems for defense and intelligence applications; and signals intelligence payloads and EO/IR technologies for small UAV platforms, as well as onboard UAV processor systems for real-time wide area motion imagery. In addition, it designs, markets and sells products intended to protect electronic systems that are critical to national security. The company serves the aerospace and defense electronics industries. The company was formerly known as Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Mercury Systems, Inc. in November 2012. Mercury Systems, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Mercury Systems is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.869% of Mercury Systems shares are held by insiders and 97.79% by institutions.

• How many people work for Mercury Systems?

  Latest data suggests 1,979 work at Mercury Systems.

• When does the fiscal year end for Mercury Systems?

  Mercury Systems's fiscal year ends in June.

• Where is Mercury Systems based?

  Mercury Systems's address is: 50 Minuteman Road, Andover, MA, United States, 01810

• What is Mercury Systems's ISIN number?

  Mercury Systems's international securities identification number is: US5893781089

• What is Mercury Systems's CUSIP number?

  Mercury Systems's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 589378108