Sharps Compliance Corp. shares rallied 13.5% in the last trading session to close at $15.36. This move can be attributable to notable volume with a higher number of shares being traded than in a typical session. This compares to the stock's 1.5% loss over the past four weeks.

Sharps Compliance’s rally is largely driven by optimism over the strong momentum across its mailback business and growth prospects for its route-based offering. The company’s customer billings have been benefiting from higher volumes of flu-related orders, COVID-19-related mailback orders and increase in route-based pickup services.

Price and Consensus

This medical waste management company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.16 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +260%. Revenues are expected to be $22.55 million, up 116.6% from the year-ago quarter.

Earnings and revenue growth expectations certainly give a good sense of the potential strength in a stock, but empirical research shows that trends in earnings estimate revisions are strongly correlated with near-term stock price movements.

For Sharps Compliance, the consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 20.3% higher over the last 30 days to the current level. And a positive trend in earnings estimate revision usually translates into price appreciation. So, make sure to keep an eye on SMED going forward to see if this recent jump can turn into more strength down the road.

The stock currently carries a Zacks Rank 2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stocks here >>>>