DGX
Quest Diagnostics
Health Care · Health Care Services · US
$200.29
Data: 2025-12-31
✗ ETHICAL FAIL

NARROW MOAT
HIGH
Data Confidence: 100.0%
Key Metrics

How this company measures up on the fundamentals that matter

Market Cap
$20.7B
Total market value of the company
20.70
Premium valuation
16.10
Based on estimated future earnings — lower means cheaper
Rev Growth
+9.2%
Year-over-year revenue change
Profit Margin
0.0%
How much profit the company keeps from each dollar of revenue
14.5%
Return on equity — how efficiently it uses shareholder money
Analyst Target
$223.25
+11% from current price — median analyst estimate
Recommendation
BUY
Consensus view from 16 analysts covering this stock
About Quest Diagnostics

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated provides diagnostic testing and services in the United States. The company develops and delivers diagnostic information services, such as routine, non-routine and advanced clinical testing, anatomic pathology testing, and other diagnostic information services. It also provides services under the Quest Diagnostics brand, as well as under the AmeriPath, Dermpath Diagnostics, ExamOne, and Quanum brands to physicians, hospitals, patients and consumers, health plans, government agencies, employers, retailers, pharmaceutical companies and insurers commercial clinical laboratories, and accountable care organizations through a network of laboratories, patient service centers, phlebotomists in physician offices, call centers and mobile phlebotomists, nurses, and other health and wellness professionals. In addition, the company offers risk assessment services for the life insurance industry; healthcare IT healthcare providers and payers; testing and medical director services at hospital laboratories; test offerings in cardiometabolic and endocrine; cancer; clinical drug monitoring and toxicology; infectious disease, including autoimmune; neurology diagnostics, including Alzheimer's disease; and women's health, such as prenatal genetic; workplace drug testing, testing urine, hair, and oral fluid specimens services; and employer population health services, including biometric screenings, flu shots, and related preventative services. Further, it provides population health solutions; extended care services; develops in vitro diagnostic tests; laboratory diagnostic information and digital health connectivity systems; underwriting support services, including data gathering, paramedical examinations, and clinical laboratory testing and analytics; and national specimen collection and health data solutions. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey.

https://www.questdiagnostics.com

Country: United States Employees: 57,000 Industry: Diagnostics & Research
Ethical Screening

Five compliance checks based on AAOIFI standards — all must pass for ethical clearance

Business Activity
PASS
Core business does not involve prohibited activities
Debt Ratio
40.6% FAIL
Debt must be below 33% of total assets
Cash Ratio
0.8% PASS
Interest-bearing cash below 33% of assets
Receivables
11.3% PASS
Receivables below 49% of assets
Revenue Purity
0.1% PASS
Non-compliant revenue below 5% — any excess requires purification
Valuation
$233.00
What our model estimates this business is worth per share
14.0%
Slight discount to fair value
Rating
AVOID
Overall assessment combining ethics, valuation, and quality
48.2th
Ranks in the top 52% of our 13,571 screened universe
Ethical Score
10.0
Valuation Score
73.0
Quality Score
41.0
Combined
39.6

Trading at $187 against a fair value of $233, a 20% discount. Fails ethical screen (Debt ratio). Ranks better than 12% of screened stocks.

Quantitative Intelligence

Statistical analysis of price behaviour, risk, and market regime — independent of fundamental data

MARKDOWN
Price trending down — defensive positioning
0.936
Good returns relative to risk taken
0.0761
Suggested allocation is meaningful — the edge justifies a position
1.754
Returns exceed worst-case losses — strong risk profile
Annual Return
20.3%
Historical annualised return based on price data
-11.6%
Largest peak-to-trough decline — the worst it has been
BEAR
Statistical model detects bearish conditions
Days in State
72
How long the current regime has persisted — longer means more stable
Market Data

Trading characteristics and market positioning

0.60
Less volatile than the market — more defensive
52W High
$213.50
6% below the year high
52W Low
$164.65
22% above the year low
Avg Volume
895,720
Average daily shares traded — higher means easier to buy and sell
3.2
Days it would take all short sellers to cover — higher means more crowded
Short % Float
3.1%
Low short interest — limited bearish positioning
184.0%
Annual dividend as a percentage of the share price
$9.05
Earnings per share over the last 12 months
Financial Health

Balance sheet strength and cash generation — the foundation of long-term value

0.83
Moderate leverage — manageable
1.18
Adequate but worth monitoring
Quick Ratio
0.91
Like current ratio but excludes inventory — stricter test
Gross Margin
33.3%
Revenue left after cost of goods — higher means pricing power
Operating Margin
14.2%
Profit from core operations before interest and tax
$948M
Positive — the business generates more cash than it spends
Revenue (TTM)
$11.3B
Total revenue over the last 12 months
Net Income
$1.0B
Profitable — the bottom line is positive
Analyst Coverage
Analysts
16
Target High
$245.00
Target Median
$223.25
Target Low
$184.00
Recent Insider Activity

SEC Form 4 filings — what company insiders are buying and selling

Date Insider Title Type Shares Value
2026-04-20 PLEWMAN PATRICK Officer 49 $9,540
2026-04-20 LASSITER WRIGHT III Director 6 $1,168
2026-04-20 KUPPUSAMY KARTHIK Officer 39 $7,593
2026-04-20 DELANEY MARK E Officer 37 $7,204
2026-04-20 GREGG VICKY B Director 68 $13,239
2026-04-20 SAMAD SAMER ABDUL Chief Financial Officer 108 $21,027
2026-03-09 WENTWORTH TIMOTHY CHARLES Director 215
2026-03-05 PREVOZNIK MICHAEL E General Counsel 3,878 $799,682
2026-03-05 DOHERTY CATHERINE T Officer 5,558 $1,146,115
2026-03-05 PLEWMAN PATRICK Officer 2,855 $588,730
Source: SEC Form 4 filings via public data. View all insider activity at
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Data sourced from public filings and market feeds. Not financial advice. Updated: 2025-12-31

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