Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) Stock Dropped -82.06% Year-To-Date, What Analysts Expect Next?

In last trading session, Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) saw 7.75 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.93. Company’s recent per share price level of $1.76 trading at -$0.01 or -0.56% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $479.28M. That closing price of PACB’s stock is at a discount of -505.11% from its 52-week high price of $10.65 and is indicating a premium of 34.09% from its 52-week low price of $1.16. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 10.8 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 9.50 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (PACB), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.19. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 11 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 6 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.18 in the current quarter.

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Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.56%, in the last five days PACB remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 11/25/24 when the stock touched $1.76 price level, adding 10.2% to its value on the day. Pacific Biosciences of California Inc’s shares saw a change of -82.06% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.33% in past 5-day. Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB) showed a performance of -14.56% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 52.14 million shares which calculate 4.85 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 3 to the stock, which implies a rise of 41.33% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 2 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 4. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -13.64% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -13.64% for stock’s current value.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (PACB) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Pacific Biosciences of California Inc is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -9.28% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 18.02% while that of industry is 15.40. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -22.46% from the last financial year’s standing.

13 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 40.66M for the same. And 11 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 42.67M in the next quarter. Company posted 58.36M and 38.81M 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 -9.76% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -12.49% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -1.00%.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc (NASDAQ:PACB)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 9.32% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 83.08 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 91.62%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 83.08% institutions for Pacific Biosciences of California Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC is the top institutional holder at PACB for having 33.21 million shares of worth $45.5 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 12.3202 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 26.0 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.6443 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $35.62 million.

On the other hand, ARK ETF Tr-ARK Innovation ETF and ARK ETF Tr-ARK Genomic Revolution ETF are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Oct 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 18.94 shares of worth $33.33 million or 6.91% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 12.39 shares on Oct 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $21.81 million in the company or a holder of 4.52% of company’s stock.