Sage Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: SAGE) Stock: Can It Change The Game?

In today’s recent session, 0.98 million shares of the Sage Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SAGE) have been traded, and its beta is 0.92. Most recently the company’s share price was $14.05, and it changed around $1.1 or 8.49% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $844.55M. SAGE at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $59.99, offering almost -326.98% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $10.92, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 22.28% since then. We note from Sage Therapeutics Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 3-month average coming to 995.55K.

Sage Therapeutics Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 2.65. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 15 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended SAGE as a Hold, whereas 8 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Sage Therapeutics Inc is expected to report earnings per share of -$1.65 for the current quarter.

Sage Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SAGE) trade information

Instantly SAGE has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 8.49% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The company’s shares are currently down -35.16% year-to-date, but still up 11.77% over the last five days. On the other hand, Sage Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SAGE) is -24.83% down in the 30-day period.

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $49.94, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 71.87% from its current value. Analyst projections state that SAGE is forecast to be at a low of $17 and a high of $105.

Sage Therapeutics Inc (SAGE) estimates and forecasts

Sage Therapeutics Inc share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -23.52 percent over the past six months and at a 30.39% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 10.10%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 32.90% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 38.80% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -60.40%, down from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 17 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of $5.66 million in revenue for the current quarter. 17 analysts expect Sage Therapeutics Inc to make $7.1 million in revenue for the quarter ending Jun 2024. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were $2.41 million and $2.47 million respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 134.90%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 187.40%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -2.28%. Sage Therapeutics Inc earnings are expected to increase by 29.39% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 16.80% per year for the next five years.