Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ: PACB)’s Outlook Shocks Bears.

In the last trading session, 16.88 million shares of the Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) were traded, and its beta was 2.02. Most recently the company’s share price was $1.55, and it changed around $0.09 or 6.16% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $422.03M. PACB currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $14.55, offering almost -838.71% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $1.25, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 19.35% since then. We note from Pacific Biosciences of California Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 3-month average coming to 9.74 million.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.36. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended PACB as a Hold, whereas 0 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Pacific Biosciences of California Inc is expected to report earnings per share of -$0.28 for the current quarter.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) trade information

Instantly PACB has showed a green trend with a performance of 6.16% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The company’s shares are currently down -84.20% year-to-date, but still down -51.10% over the last five days. On the other hand, Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) is -59.42% down in the 30-day period.

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $4.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 65.56% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PACB is forecast to be at a low of $2.5 and a high of $7.5.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (PACB) estimates and forecasts

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc share prices are performing particularly well not compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -79.74 percent over the past six months and at a 9.01% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of 14.60%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 22.20% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 7.10% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 3.00%, up from the previous year.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -9.76%. Pacific Biosciences of California Inc earnings are expected to increase by 15.88% in 2024, but the outlook is negative -1.00% per year for the next five years.

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Pacific Biosciences of California Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in May.