Veracyte Raises 2025 Sales Guidance to $510 Million Amid Positive Market Trends
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Dec 31 2025
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Source: Yahoo Finance
- Market Outlook Positive: Morgan Stanley initiates coverage of Veracyte (NASDAQ:VCYT) with an Underweight rating and raises the price target from $40 to $48, reflecting emerging bright spots in the Life Science Tools and Diagnostics markets, despite industry valuations reaching fair levels.
- Sales Guidance Increased: Veracyte raises its total sales forecast for 2025 from $496 million to $510 million, with testing revenue projections also increasing from $477 million to $487 million, indicating strong performance and growth potential in the market.
- Profitability Improvement: The adjusted EBITDA margin guidance is elevated from 23.5% to over 25%, demonstrating significant progress in cost control and profitability enhancement, with expectations of maintaining around 25% EBITDA margin in Q4 and subsequent years.
- Enhanced Growth Drivers: Testing sales growth expectations are raised from 14%-15% to 16%, not only reflecting the company's keen insight into market demand but also potentially providing higher returns for investors, further solidifying its market position in genomic diagnostics.
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Analyst Views on VCYT
Wall Street analysts forecast VCYT stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for VCYT is 46.14 USD with a low forecast of 43.00 USD and a high forecast of 50.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
8 Analyst Rating
6 Buy
1 Hold
1 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 38.480
Low
43.00
Averages
46.14
High
50.00
Current: 38.480
Low
43.00
Averages
46.14
High
50.00
About VCYT
Veracyte, Inc. is a global diagnostics company. The Company enables clinicians with insights they need to guide and help patients to diagnose and treat cancer. The Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and an evidence-generation engine, which drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for its tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development. The Company offers tests for prostate cancer (Decipher Prostate), thyroid cancer (Afirma), breast cancer (Prosigna) and bladder cancer (Decipher Bladder). It has developed the noninvasive Percepta Nasal Swab test to help physicians accurately and quickly determine lung cancer risk. All of its tests are serviced through its own Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certified laboratories in South San Francisco, California, San Diego, California and Austin, Texas.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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