IQV · IQVIA Holdings Inc

264.87−2.03  (−0.76%)

Price

Snapshot

50 fields · last close
Market Cap$43.93B
P/E31.95
Float162.8M
Beta1.18
Volatility29.4%
ExchangeNYSE
SectorLife Sciences Tools & Services
Cap tierLarge cap
Macro sensitivityModerate
Clavix score73.3
Price264.87
Change−0.76%
Prev Close266.90
Open271.92
Day Low263.21
Day High272.98
Avg Vol1
Avg $ Vol$326.1M
52W High277.40
52W Low154.50
52W Pos89.8%
From High−4.52%
From Low+71.44%
Max DD 1Y−35.87%
Spread0.10%
LiquidityNormal
SMA 20−0.18%
SMA 50+1.87%
SMA 200+27.50%
RSI (14)54.8
Vol 30D25.6%
Vol 90D38.4%
1Y Range154–277
Daily bars536
Perf Week+2.70%
Perf Month−0.94%
Perf Quarter+30.90%
Perf Half Y+51.25%
Perf Year+31.40%
Perf YTD+17.53%
Prev Day−0.76%
ClavixB
Debt / Eq1.58
Curr Ratio0.75
Int Cover3.2×
FCF Margin16.3%
Rev Growth+5.9%
ProfitProfitable
LeverageHigh
Sector rank11 / 19

What IQV does

IQVIA Holdings Inc. provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.

It operates through three segments: Technology & Analytics Solutions, Research & Development Solutions, and Contract Sales & Medical Solutions.

The Technology & Analytics Solutions segment offers a range of cloud-based applications and associated implementation services; real world solutions that enable life sciences and provider customers to generate and disseminate evidence, which informs health care decision making and improves patients’ outcomes; and strategic and implementation consulting services, such as advanced analytics and commercial processes outsourcing services.

This segment also provides country level performance metrics related to sales of pharmaceutical products, prescribing trends, medical treatment, and promotional activity across various channels, including retail, hospital, and mail order; and measurement of sales or prescribing activity at the regional, zip code, and individual prescriber level.

The Research & Development Solutions segment offers project management and clinical monitoring; clinical trial support; strategic planning and design services; and patient and site centric solutions, as well as central laboratory, genomic, bioanalytical, ADME, discovery, vaccine and biomarker laboratory services.

The Contract Sales & Medical Solutions segment provides health care provider and patient engagement services, and scientific strategy and medical services.

It serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, device and diagnostic, and consumer health companies. The company has a strategic collaboration with Kexing Biopharm Co., Ltd. for biosimilar development.

The company was formerly known as Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to IQVIA Holdings Inc. in November 2017.

IQVIA Holdings Inc. is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Clavix risk grade

regraded every trading day
B73.3/100

IQV grades B, 73.3 of 100. Steadiest on Macro Resilience (64), most exposed on Sector Resilience (57, mixed). 1 of the 4 weighted dimensions sit above the Life Sciences Tools & Services median. Ranks 11 of 19 in Life Sciences Tools & Services by Clavix score.

PriceMacroSectorNewsFinancial

How rough the ride is

IQVLife Sciences Tools & Services median
Betavs the overall market · lower is steadier1.181.18
Volatilityannualized29.4%29.4%
Max drawdown, past yearworst peak-to-trough fall−35.9%—
Typical daily movemedian absolute daily change1.15%—
Days beyond ±3%of the last 252 sessions34 (13%)—

How its days are spread

Daily returns over the last 252 sessions in 1% bins. Moves beyond ±6% land in the end bins.

52-week range

IQV
266.90

The bar runs from the lowest to the highest close of the last 252 sessions; the marker is the latest close.

Drawdown from the 1-year peak

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Percent below the running high over the last 12 months. Zero is a fresh high.

Market sensitivity

IQVLife Sciences Tools & Services median
Beta to the markethow much it swings with the S&P 500 · lower is safer1.181.18
Macro sensitivityrate, dollar and credit exposure bucketModerateModerate 53% of 19

Where it sits on the macro scale

Low 1Moderate 10High 5Very High 3

Low means rates, the dollar and credit spreads barely move it. Very High means they drive a large share of its swings. The counts are how many Life Sciences Tools & Services names sit in each bucket.

Where it ranks in its sector

Sector
Life Sciences Tools & Services19 companies ranked
IQV
#11 of 19

Rank by Clavix score within the sector. Right is the top of the sector.

Price performance

IQV
1 week+2.7%
1 month−0.9%
Year to date+17.5%
1 year+31.4%

Context for the rank, not itself a risk measure.

Recent coverage, scored

IQV
Articles scoredthe most recent scored coverage, up to 3030 since 9 Sep
Average score0 most bearish, 100 most bullish57
Bullish · bearisharticles above 60 · below 4017 · 6
Directionarticles whose tone is improving vs worsening17 ↑ 6 ↓

Where the article scores land

Each bar is a 10-point band of article scores. Below 40 reads bearish, above 60 bullish.

Balance sheet, against the sector

Debt / equityTotal debt vs shareholder equity · lower is stronger
1.58sector median 0.51 · 19 names
Current ratioShort-term assets vs liabilities · higher is stronger
0.75sector median 1.89 · 19 names
FCF marginFree cash flow as a share of revenue · higher is stronger
16.3%sector median 17.8% · 19 names
Interest coverageOperating income vs interest expense · higher is stronger
3.2×sector median 3.5× · 19 names

The shaded band is the middle half of the 19 Life Sciences Tools & Services names Clavix covers; the tick is the sector median.

Growth

IQV
Revenue growthyear over year+5.9%

Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade. Why

0–100, higher is safer. The tick on each bar is the Life Sciences Tools & Services median. Click a dimension for the evidence behind it. Financial Health is shown but does not count toward the grade.

Recent news

most recent scored articles · the chip is the article’s score · click to open

Community Trust & Investment Co. cut its position in IQVIA Holdings by 13.8% in the third quarter, leaving it with 79,885 shares, according to a Form 13F filing with the SEC. The article body is too short to provide further detail.

Source marketbeat.com Significance minor Impact other Risk worsening

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IQVIA (IQV) will standardize its global clinical research operations on Veeva Systems' software, adopting Veeva's clinical trial management system, electronic trial master file (the digital document archive regulators require for each trial), study startup tool, and site connect platform as the default across all studies.

Source yahoo.com Significance minor Impact product Risk improving

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Veeva expanded its clinical operations software partnership with IQVIA, adding a broader software suite and aiming for wider adoption and connected day-to-day workflows.

Source yahoo.com Significance minor Impact product Risk improving

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Stifel Nicolaus raised its price target on IQVIA from $276.00 to $303.00 and assigned a "buy" rating on Wednesday.

Source marketbeat.com Significance moderate Impact financial impact Risk improving

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Veeva Systems stock rose 2.8% after IQVIA expanded their partnership by selecting Veeva's clinical operations software as its standard toolkit for running clinical development studies, extending an existing data capture agreement.

Source stockstory.org Significance minor Impact product Risk neutral

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