Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE: EBS): Why Investors Shouldn’t Ditch EBS Stock In 2024

In the last trading session, 1.22 million Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE:EBS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.20. With the company’s per share price at $2.41 changed hands at -$0.06 or -2.43% during last session, the market valuation stood at $125.80M. EBS’s last price was a discount, traded about -467.22% off its 52-week high of $13.67. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.42, which suggests the last value was 41.08% up since then. When we look at Emergent Biosolutions Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.81 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.12 million.

Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE:EBS) trade information

Instantly EBS was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -1.63%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The drop to weekly highs of 2.59 subtracted -2.43% to the stock’s daily price. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 0.42%, with the 5-day performance at -1.63% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE:EBS) is -13.93% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 6.2 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.11 days.

Emergent Biosolutions Inc (EBS) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Emergent Biosolutions Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -29.94% over the past 6 months, a -124.40% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 12.20%. Moreover, analysts have looked to higher expectations by upgrading its fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict current quarter revenue for Emergent Biosolutions Inc will rise 73.80%, while the growth in revenue is estimated to hit 40.60% for the next quarter. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -2.30% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 1 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of $224.5 million. 1 analysts are of the opinion that Emergent Biosolutions Inc’s revenue for the quarter ending Jun 2024 will be $244.5 million. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 13.10%.

The 2024 estimates are for Emergent Biosolutions Inc earnings to increase by 67.90%.

EBS Dividends

Emergent Biosolutions Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report between May 07 and May 13.

Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE:EBS)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.89% of Emergent Biosolutions Inc shares while 79.85% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 82.22%. There are 79.85% institutions holding the Emergent Biosolutions Inc stock share, with Blackrock Inc. the top institutional holder. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held 17.82% of the shares, roughly 9.23 million EBS shares worth $67.85 million.

State Street Corporation holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 13.11% or 6.79 million shares worth $49.94 million as of Jun 29, 2023.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Aug 30, 2023 were SPDR (R) Ser Tr-SPDR (R) S&P (R) Biotech ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. With 4.9 million shares estimated at $22.99 million under it, the former controlled 9.46% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 2.79% of the shares, roughly 1.44 million shares worth around $10.61 million.