In today’s recent session, 1.38 million shares of the Esperion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ESPR) have been traded, and its beta is 0.92. Most recently the company’s share price was $2.11, and it changed around -$0.01 or -0.71% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $418.70M. ESPR at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $3.40, offering almost -61.14% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $1.04, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 50.71% since then. We note from Esperion Therapeutics Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 6.91 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.74 million.
Esperion Therapeutics Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.71. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 12 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended ESPR as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. Esperion Therapeutics Inc is expected to report earnings per share of -0.12 for the current quarter.
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Esperion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ESPR) trade information
Instantly ESPR has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.71% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 2.49 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 15.26%. The company’s shares are currently down -29.60% year-to-date, but still down -16.47% over the last five days. On the other hand, Esperion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ESPR) is 3.19% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 33.46 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 10.38 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $16, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 86.81% from its current value. Analyst projections state that ESPR is forecast to be at a low of $12 and a high of $20.
Esperion Therapeutics Inc (ESPR) estimates and forecasts
Esperion 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 -15.12 percent over the past six months and at a 87.68% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 15.60%. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 180.18%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 6 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 62.35M in revenue for the current quarter. 1 analysts expect Esperion Therapeutics Inc to make 60.8M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 32.25M and 137.74M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 93.33%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -55.86%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 23.09%. Esperion Therapeutics Inc earnings are expected to increase by 84.83% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 16.90% per year for the next five years.
ESPR Dividends
Esperion Therapeutics Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-25.
Esperion Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ESPR)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.50% of Esperion Therapeutics Inc shares, and 66.33% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 66.66%. Esperion Therapeutics Inc stock is held by 223.0 institutions, with WASATCH ADVISORS LP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.9628% of the shares, which is about 16.86 million shares worth $37.44 million.
BLACKROCK INC., with 8.2617% or 13.98 million shares worth $31.04 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
