DGX - Latest News
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (DGX), operates in Healthcare / Medical - Diagnostics & Research, trades on NYSE.
Market capitalization stands near $25.87B. Trailing twelve-month P/E ratio is 24.28. Beta to the broader market is 0.55.
The article list below shows the most recent DGX headlines from major financial news vendors. For options traders, the most actionable items are earnings releases, analyst rating changes, M&A activity, and regulatory filings - each can drive a meaningful repricing of implied volatility and shift dealer hedging flow. Pair the news context with the implied-volatility skew and gamma exposure views to see whether the options market has already priced in the headline.
Recent DGX Headlines
Here's Why Quest Diagnostics (DGX) is a Strong Momentum Stock
zacks.com - Aug 17, 2026
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Quest Diagnostics (DGX) Is Up 2.29% in One Week: What You Should Know
zacks.com - Aug 14, 2026
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Quest Diagnostics Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
prnewswire.com - Aug 12, 2026
SECAUCUS, N. J.
Quest Diagnostics typically performs between 30 and 40 cyclospora tests a day. Now it's processing more than 1,500.
wsj.com - Aug 5, 2026
Samples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.
Quest Diagnostics CEO: AI is helping patients understand their doctors
youtube.com - Aug 4, 2026
Quest Diagnostics president and CEO Jim Davis discusses how his company is implementing AI to help its patients on 'The Claman Countdown.
How News Affects DGX Options Pricing
Headlines and scheduled events drive implied volatility in two distinct ways. Pre-event, IV typically inflates as uncertainty about the outcome rises; this is the implied-volatility expansion that creates the long-vol setup. Post-event, IV typically contracts sharply as uncertainty resolves; this is IV crush, which makes premium-selling structures profitable when they survive the underlying move. The size of the crush depends on how stretched pre-event IV is relative to the realized move. Track DGX's implied vs realized volatility over the news cycle to size pre-event vs post-event positioning. For ticker-level dealer positioning context, the gamma exposure view shows whether dealers are positioned to amplify or dampen post-news moves.
Frequently asked DGX news questions
- What is the latest DGX news headline?
- The most recent DGX headline (Aug 17, 2026) is "Here's Why Quest Diagnostics (DGX) is a Strong Momentum Stock". The five most recent stories with summaries and publication times are listed above, sourced from major financial news vendors.
- How fresh is the DGX news on this page?
- News rows refresh roughly every 30 minutes during the trading day. The five most recent headlines are listed in publication-time order. Press releases from the company itself typically appear within minutes of the wire release; third-party reporting may lag by 30-60 minutes depending on the source.
- What DGX news moves options pricing?
- Three categories move single-name IV most aggressively: scheduled earnings releases (priced into pre-event IV, crushed post-event), unscheduled M&A or strategic announcements (rapid IV expansion, slower decay), and regulatory or legal events (drug-trial readouts, antitrust filings, FDA approvals). Routine news flow (analyst commentary, sector rotation) typically does not move IV meaningfully unless it triggers a cluster of rating changes.
- How can I track unusual DGX options activity related to news?
- Unusual options activity often precedes news by hours to days; the canonical signals are volume substantially above the trailing average concentrated in a small number of strikes, atypical put/call skew, and aggressive execution (at-the-ask sweeps or block prints). Cross-reference the per-ticker gamma-exposure and volume-history pages with the news flow above to triangulate informed vs uninformed flow.