Is Alector Inc (NASDAQ: ALEC) Stock An Instant Disaster Or An Incredible Opportunity?

In the last trading session, 2.74 million Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.52. With the company’s per share price at $2.59 changed hands at $0.04 or 1.77% during last session, the market valuation stood at $258.13M. ALEC’s last price was a discount, traded about -243.63% off its 52-week high of $8.90. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.37, which suggests the last value was 8.49% up since then. When we look at Alector Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 2.15 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 826.31K.

Analysts gave the Alector Inc (ALEC) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended ALEC as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

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Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) trade information

Instantly ALEC was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -31.12%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -67.54%, with the 5-day performance at -31.12% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) is -49.22% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 4.02 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 6.55 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 4, meaning bulls need an upside of 35.25% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, ALEC’s forecast low is 4 with 4 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -54.44% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -54.44% for it to hit the projected low.

Alector Inc (ALEC) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Alector 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 -47.36% over the past 6 months, a -19.23% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 17.70%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -15.76%. The 2024 estimates are for Alector Inc earnings to decrease by -18.12%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -10.70% per year.

ALEC Dividends

Alector Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January.

Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 10.08% of Alector Inc shares while 86.07% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 95.73%. There are 86.07% institutions holding the Alector Inc stock share, with FMR LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 15.4111% of the shares, roughly 14.46 million ALEC shares worth $65.64 million.

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