Should You Expect Erasca Inc (NASDAQ:ERAS) To Recover From Its 14.58% Gain From Highs?

Erasca Inc (NASDAQ:ERAS)’s traded shares stood at 1.3 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.25. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.92, to imply a decrease of -0.26% or $0.0 in intraday trading. The ERAS share’s 52-week high remains $3.45, putting it -79.69% down since that peak but still an impressive 14.58% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $1.64. The company has a valuation of $542.84M, with an average of 1.31 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.45 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Erasca Inc (ERAS), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 3 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give ERAS a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 3 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 -0.13.

Erasca Inc (NASDAQ:ERAS) trade information

After registering a -0.26% downside in the last session, Erasca Inc (ERAS) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -30.18%, and -27.00% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -23.51%. Short interest in Erasca Inc (NASDAQ:ERAS) saw shorts transact 32.79 million shares and set a 24.05 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $6 and $6 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, ERAS has been trading -212.5% off suggested target high and -212.5% from its likely low.

Erasca Inc (ERAS) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Erasca Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Erasca Inc (ERAS) shares are -40.56% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at 12.05% against 16.70%.

ERAS Dividends

Erasca 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.

Erasca Inc (NASDAQ:ERAS)’s Major holders

Erasca Inc insiders hold 12.39% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 87.02% of the shares at 99.33% float percentage. In total, 87.02% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VR ADVISER, LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 16.22 million shares (or 7.4452% of shares), all amounting to roughly $38.27 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is FRAZIER LIFE SCIENCES MANAGEMENT, L.P. with 16.22 million shares, or about 7.4452% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $38.27 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 Erasca Inc (ERAS) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 30, 2024 , Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 7.92 shares. This is just over 2.80% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $15.21 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 4.44, or 1.57% of the shares, all valued at about 8.52 million.