Veru Inc (NASDAQ:VERU) has a beta value of -0.52 and has seen 1.39 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $117.62M, closed the recent trade at $0.71 per share which meant it lost -$0.03 on the day or -3.72% during that session. The VERU stock price is -170.42% off its 52-week high price of $1.92 and 49.3% above the 52-week low of $0.36. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.06 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 1.14 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Veru Inc (VERU) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.25. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 2 out of 7 have rated it as a Hold, with 5 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.
Veru Inc (NASDAQ:VERU) trade information
Sporting -3.72% in the red today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the VERU stock price touched $0.71 or saw a rise of 19.32%. Year-to-date, Veru Inc shares have moved 9.16%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 5.08%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Veru Inc (NASDAQ:VERU) have changed -2.73%. Short interest in the company has seen 12.7 million shares shorted with days to cover at 13.35.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $4, which means that the shares’ value could jump 82.25% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $3.0 while the price target rests at a high of $5.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -604.23% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -322.54% from the levels at last check today.
Veru Inc (VERU) estimates and forecasts
Figures show that Veru Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have lost -16.62% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 0.00%, compared to 12.30% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -82.23%.
4 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 3.17M for the current quarter. Year-ago sales stood 2.14M and 4.14M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 48.31% for the current quarter and -82.23% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -8.11% over the past 5 years.
VERU Dividends
Veru Inc is expected to release its next earnings report in February this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.
Veru Inc (NASDAQ:VERU)’s Major holders
Insiders own 14.10% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 42.04% with a share float percentage of 48.94%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Veru Inc having a total of 137.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are ADAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS GP, L.L.C. with over 7.86 million shares worth more than $6.61 million. As of 2024-06-30, ADAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS GP, L.L.C. held 5.3703% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 7.65 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $6.44 million and represent 5.2267% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. As of Sep 30, 2024, the former fund manager holds about 2.66% shares in the company for having 3.89 shares of worth $2.78 million while later fund manager owns 3.26 shares of worth $2.33 million as of Oct 31, 2024, which makes it owner of about 2.23% of company’s outstanding stock.
