In today’s recent session, 3.23 million shares of the Geron Corp. (NASDAQ:GERN) have been traded, and its beta is 0.52. Most recently the company’s share price was $4.69, and it changed around $0.09 or 1.96% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2.78B. GERN at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $5.34, offering almost -13.86% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $1.64, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 65.03% since then. We note from Geron Corp.’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 12.5 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 11.56 million.
Geron Corp. stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 1.14. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended GERN as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Geron Corp. is expected to report earnings per share of -0.1 for the current quarter.
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Geron Corp. (NASDAQ:GERN) trade information
Instantly GERN has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 1.96% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 4.89 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 4.09%. The company’s shares are currently up 122.27% year-to-date, but still down -1.05% over the last five days. On the other hand, Geron Corp. (NASDAQ:GERN) is 2.40% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 44.66 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.39 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $6, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 21.83% from its current value. Analyst projections state that GERN is forecast to be at a low of $4.5 and a high of $7.
Geron Corp. (GERN) estimates and forecasts
Geron Corp. 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 risen 157.69 percent over the past six months and at a -9.38% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of 16.70%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will loss -11.10% in revenue this quarter, and will report a decrease of -12.50% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 21,537.10%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 7 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 270k in revenue for the current quarter. 7 analysts expect Geron Corp. to make 15.9M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 29k and 164k respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 831.00%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 9,595.10%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -16.08%. Geron Corp. earnings are expected to increase by -10.21% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 5.00% per year for the next five years.
GERN Dividends
Geron Corp.’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2024-Aug-08.
Geron Corp. (NASDAQ:GERN)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.09% of Geron Corp. shares, and 74.34% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 74.40%. Geron Corp. stock is held by 310.0 institutions, with RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-03-31, it held 7.6558% of the shares, which is about 46.2 million shares worth $152.47 million.
BLACKROCK INC., with 6.9607% or 41.41 million shares worth $136.67 million as of 2024-03-31, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
