In the last trading session, 2.16 million Summit Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SMMT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched -0.97. With the company’s per share price at $21.21 changed hands at -$0.36 or -1.67% during last session, the market valuation stood at $15.36B. SMMT’s last price was a discount, traded about -59.78% off its 52-week high of $33.89. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.64, which suggests the last value was 92.27% up since then. When we look at Summit Therapeutics Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 2.78 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.01 million.

Analysts gave the Summit Therapeutics Inc (SMMT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.67. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended SMMT as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Summit Therapeutics Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.07.

Summit Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SMMT) trade information

Instantly SMMT was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 6.32%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 712.64%, with the 5-day performance at 6.32% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Summit Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SMMT) is -8.42% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 16.34 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.53 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 40, meaning bulls need an upside of 46.98% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, SMMT’s forecast low is 23 with 45 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -112.16% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -8.44% for it to hit the projected low.

Summit Therapeutics Inc (SMMT) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Summit Therapeutics 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 506.00% over the past 6 months, a -107.69% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 17.50%.

The 2024 estimates are for Summit Therapeutics Inc earnings to increase by 72.30%.

SMMT Dividends

Summit Therapeutics Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Nov-05.

Summit Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SMMT)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 84.63% of Summit Therapeutics Inc shares while 10.07% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 65.48%. There are 10.07% institutions holding the Summit Therapeutics Inc stock share, with BAKER BROS. ADVISORS LP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 3.309% of the shares, roughly 23.22 million SMMT shares worth $181.13 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 1.2566% or 8.82 million shares worth $68.78 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Aug 31, 2024 were Fidelity Select Portfolios – Biotechnology and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 3.68 shares estimated at $78.15 million under it, the former controlled 0.51% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 0.50% of the shares, roughly 3.59 shares worth around $76.18 million.