Cogent Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: COGT) Is A Good Bet For Risk-Tolerant Investors

Cogent Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:COGT)’s traded shares stood at 2.58 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.78. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $8.12, to imply an increase of 10.18% or $0.75 in intraday trading. The COGT share’s 52-week high remains $12.61, putting it -55.3% down since that peak but still an impressive 47.29% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $4.28. The company has a valuation of $896.95M, with an average of 1.45 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.49 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Cogent Biosciences Inc (COGT), translating to a mean rating of 1.55. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give COGT a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 4 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.57.

Cogent Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:COGT) trade information

After registering a 10.18% upside in the last session, Cogent Biosciences Inc (COGT) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -1.58%, and -2.64% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 4.10%. Short interest in Cogent Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:COGT) saw shorts transact 7.98 million shares and set a 4.48 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $14 and $15 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, COGT has been trading -84.73% off suggested target high and -72.41% from its likely low.

Cogent Biosciences Inc (COGT) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Cogent Biosciences Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Cogent Biosciences Inc (COGT) shares are -14.53% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at 0.00% against 16.70%.

COGT Dividends

Cogent Biosciences Inc has its next earnings report out in February. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is COMMODORE CAPITAL LP with 9.74 million shares, or about 9.8126% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $82.09 million.

We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Cogent Biosciences Inc (COGT) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 30, 2024 , Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 3.09 shares. This is just over 2.80% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $25.07 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 2.37, or 2.15% of the shares, all valued at about 19.28 million.