Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: HRTX) Has Decreased By 121.69 Percent This Year. Is It A Better Buy Than Others?

Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX)’s traded shares stood at 2.84 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.71. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.21, to imply a decrease of -5.47% or -$0.07 in intraday trading. The HRTX share’s 52-week high remains $3.93, putting it -224.79% down since that peak but still an impressive 56.2% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $0.53. The company has a valuation of $183.52M, with an average of 2.35 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.95 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Heron Therapeutics Inc (HRTX), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 2 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give HRTX a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.03.

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Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX) trade information

After registering a -5.47% downside in the last session, Heron Therapeutics Inc (HRTX) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -32.78%, and -32.78% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -28.82%. Short interest in Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX) saw shorts transact 28.81 million shares and set a 20.19 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $5 and $9 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, HRTX has been trading -643.8% off suggested target high and -313.22% from its likely low.

Heron Therapeutics Inc (HRTX) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Heron Therapeutics Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Heron Therapeutics Inc (HRTX) shares are -59.67% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 90.00% against 16.40%. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 18.76% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 3 analysts is 37.37M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 3 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 140.87M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 34.23M and 127.04M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 9.15% before jumping 10.88% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 20.01% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 83.75% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 47.50% annually.

HRTX Dividends

Heron Therapeutics Inc has its next earnings report out in December. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:HRTX)’s Major holders

Heron Therapeutics Inc insiders hold 0.72% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 83.09% of the shares at 83.69% float percentage. In total, 83.09% institutions holds shares in the company, led by RUBRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 26.71 million shares (or 17.6678% of shares), all amounting to roughly $93.5 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 8.62 million shares, or about 5.6984% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $30.16 million.