Is Agenus Inc (NASDAQ:AGEN) A Better Buy Than Others After A -76.76% Fall In This Year?

In last trading session, Agenus Inc (NASDAQ:AGEN) saw 0.67 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.28. Company’s recent per share price level of $3.90 trading at -$0.03 or -0.64% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $84.24M. That closing price of AGEN’s stock is at a discount of -404.87% from its 52-week high price of $19.69 and is indicating a discount of -0.26% from its 52-week low price of $3.91. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.36 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 385.47K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Agenus Inc (AGEN), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.60. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 0 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -2.33 in the current quarter.

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Agenus Inc (NASDAQ:AGEN) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.64%, in the last five days AGEN remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 11/06/24 when the stock touched $3.90 price level, adding 11.76% to its value on the day. Agenus Inc’s shares saw a change of -76.42% in year-to-date performance and have moved -3.58% in past 5-day. Agenus Inc (NASDAQ:AGEN) showed a performance of -8.12% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.13 million shares which calculate 7.7 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 8 to the stock, which implies a rise of 51.25% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 7 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 9. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -79.49% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -79.49% for stock’s current value.

Agenus Inc (AGEN) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Agenus Inc is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -62.77% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 25.65% while that of industry is 16.60. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -19.20% from the last financial year’s standing.

5 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 33.48M for the same. And 5 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 41.38M in the next quarter. Company posted 24.31M and 83.8M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 13.79% during past 5 years.

Agenus Inc (NASDAQ:AGEN)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 1.33% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 41.80 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 42.36%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 41.80% institutions for Agenus Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at AGEN for having 2.15 million shares of worth $36.09 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.5791 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 1.55 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.6005 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $25.93 million.