Cerence Inc (NASDAQ: CRNC): A Disaster In The Making Or A Gold Mine?

In today’s recent session, 1.4 million shares of the Cerence Inc (NASDAQ:CRNC) have been traded, and its beta is 2.69. Most recently the company’s share price was $9.19, and it changed around $0.88 or 10.53% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $440.56M. CRNC at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $21.67, offering almost -135.8% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $2.34, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 74.54% since then. We note from Cerence Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 4.6 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.19 million.

Cerence Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.71. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 7 recommended CRNC as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.

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Cerence Inc (NASDAQ:CRNC) trade information

Instantly CRNC has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 10.53% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 9.22 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.33%. The company’s shares are currently down -53.28% year-to-date, but still up 19.75% over the last five days. On the other hand, Cerence Inc (NASDAQ:CRNC) is 187.03% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 6.56 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.71 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $3.3, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -178.48% from its current value. Analyst projections state that CRNC is forecast to be at a low of $3.3 and a high of $3.3.

Cerence Inc (CRNC) estimates and forecasts

Cerence Inc share prices are performing particularly well not compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 178.33 percent over the past six months and at a -87.80% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of 15.60%.

Cerence Inc earnings are expected to increase by -94.08% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 15.00% per year for the next five years.

CRNC Dividends

Cerence Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in January.

Cerence Inc (NASDAQ:CRNC)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 5.74% of Cerence Inc shares, and 83.41% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 88.49%. Cerence Inc stock is held by 234.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.5398% of the shares, which is about 3.98 million shares worth $11.26 million.

AMERICAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC, with 9.2977% or 3.88 million shares worth $10.98 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Sep 30, 2024. The former held 1.27 shares worth $11.56 million, making up 2.97% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held roughly 1.11 shares worth around $10.09 million, which represents about 2.60% of the total shares outstanding.