Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for CDNA in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
Oct 12 close
This week's news on CareDx is dominated by routine filings: several Form 4 disclosures covering insider share withholdings by CEO John Walter, General Counsel Jeffrey Adam Novack, and Chief Commercial Officer Jessica Meng, each tied to tax obligations on RSU vesting at $66.23 per share, along with a routine quarterly stock grant to director Michael Goldberg in place of cash compensation. One item describes institutional trading sentiment analysis flagging an overweight bias across timeframes for CDNA. No results, guidance, deal or regulatory news appears in this stretch.
CDNA closed at $63.12, down 0.9% on the day, sitting above both its 50-day average of $53.44 and its 200-day average of $30.10, with the shorter average above the longer one. The GekkoIndex reads 53.3, placing the stock in the Neutral zone, up 11.5 over the past five readings. Price stands 14.6% above the Gekko Fair Value of $55.06. Over the past year the stock has returned 328.5%, including a 25.6% gain over the past month.
CareDx next reports earnings on 3 November 2026 after the close, 22 days away and inside a typical 20-trading-day holding window; its last report showed EPS of $0.17 against an estimate of $0.06, with a 23.4% reaction, and it has beaten estimates in 8 of its last 8 quarters. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current windows. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged a -7.7% return over 5 years, rising in 2 of them. Six analysts cover the stock, split 3 buy and 3 hold, with a consensus target of $58.83.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
CareDx scores 1 supportive, 1 mixed and 3 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
1 supportive1 mixed3 headwinds
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $63.12 is above the 50-day ($53.44) and 200-day ($30.10) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
See the chart53.3, Neutral
Reading 53.3 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex14.6% above
Price is 14.6% above Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% above).
See fair valueNo data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart moneyReports in 22 days
Reports on Nov 3, 2026, 22 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings−7.7% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −7.7% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
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CareDx closed at $63.12 on Oct 12, 2026, +328.5% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $13.95 to $72.51.
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CareDx develops diagnostic and monitoring tools for people who have received organ transplants, along with the clinicians who care for them. Its testing menu centers on donor-derived cell-free DNA analysis, sold under the AlloSure name for kidney, heart and lung transplants, alongside AlloMap Heart, a gene-expression test for heart recipients, and AlloSeq cfDNA for broader blood-based surveillance. The company is also known for HLA typing products such as TruSight HLA, Olerup SSP, QTYPE and AlloSeq Tx, plus AlloSeq HCT for chimerism testing in stem cell transplant patients.
Beyond laboratory testing, CareDx builds software for transplant programs, including Ottr for patient management, XynQAPI for quality and waitlist tracking, and AlloCare, an app aimed at transplant patients themselves. Products reach customers directly and through third-party distributors and sub-distributors. The company has a licensing arrangement with Illumina covering next-generation sequencing products, and it works with Cibiltech SAS to commercialize iBox, a tool for predicting kidney allograft loss after transplant.
CareDx was founded in 1998 under the name XDx, Inc., later adopting its current name in 2014. It is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, and its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker CDNA.
CareDx’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 53.3, in the Neutral zone, up 11.5 points over five sessions.
Up 11.5 points over five sessions, from the Distribution zone.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 23 | +2.4% | +16.0% | ||
| Accumulation | 195 | +1.5% | +7.6% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 408 | +1.8% | +6.7% | ||
| Distribution | 55 | +4.4% | +19.9% | ||
| Selling | 1 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average CDNA share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Neutral zone: No clear directional signal. About the five zones →
CareDx trades 14.6% above Gekko Fair Value of $55.06, so the shares are overvalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what CareDx shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$55.06
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 9, 2026
14.6% Overvalued
No open-market insider purchases were filed for CareDx, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
No open-market insider purchases were filed for CDNA in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
No trades in CDNA were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
CareDx has been buying back its own shares.
From company filings.
CareDx reports on Nov 3, 2026, after the close (22 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Nov 3, 2026
Expected after the close, 22 days away
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | $0.17 est $0.06 | $131.9M est $114.1M | +23.4% |
| Apr 28, 2026 | $0.34 est $0.13 | $117.7M est $102.0M | −4.8% |
| Feb 24, 2026 | $0.12 est −$0.01 | $108.4M est $103.3M | −1.8% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $0.28 est −$0.08 | $100.1M est $102.8M | +11.9% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | $0.10 est −$0.10 | $86.68M est $95.25M | −6.1% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | $0.10 est $0.07 | $84.69M est $84.54M | −16.9% |
| Feb 26, 2025 | $0.18 est $0.15 | $86.58M est $84.56M | +0.8% |
| Nov 4, 2024 | $0.14 est $0.01 | $82.88M est $82.16M | +1.1% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for CareDx is $58.83, −6.8% from the last close, from 6 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 6 firms.
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24 | BTIG | $74 | +17.2% |
| Sep 2 | Canaccord Genuity | $65 | +3.0% |
| Aug 6 | BTIG | $60 | −4.9% |
| Aug 3 | Craig-Hallum | $64 | +1.4% |
| Aug 3 | William Blair | — | — |
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, CareDx averaged −7.7% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −0.9% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −3.6% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −6.7% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −7.7% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −3.4% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, CDNA’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 13.2%.
CareDx’s market cap is $3.27B, with a P/E ratio of 30.7 and revenue of $458.1M over the last twelve months.
Coverage of CareDx this week reads neutral: 1 positive, 11 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
CareDx’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| TMOThermo Fisher Scientific | Neutral | 18.2% above |
| ABTAbbott Laboratories | Neutral | 14.7% below |
| DHRDanaher | Neutral | 4.5% above |
| ISRGIntuitive Surgical | Neutral | 18.8% above |
| MDTMedtronic | Neutral | 22.9% below |
| SYKStryker | Accumulation | 12.6% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
CareDx’s market cap is $3.27B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $63.12, with 51.73M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 30.7.
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for CareDx is $58.83, −6.8% from the last close. Of the 6 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 3 rate it a buy, 3 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
On Gekko’s estimate CareDx is overvalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $63.12 is 14.6% above Gekko Fair Value of $55.06. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
CareDx is expected to report on Nov 3, 2026, after the market closes (22 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.26 per share on revenue of $122.0M. CareDx beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 8.4% on average across the report.
CareDx’s 52-week high is $72.51 and its 52-week low is $13.95; it closed at $63.12 on Oct 12, 2026, +328.5% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $75.92 on Oct 19, 2021.
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