Is Sutro Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ: STRO) A Disaster Waiting To Happen Or Is It A Chance To Make Money?

In the last trading session, 1.18 million Sutro Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ:STRO) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.19. With the company’s per share price at $1.99 changed hands at $0.09 or 4.74% during last session, the market valuation stood at $164.09M. STRO’s last price was a discount, traded about -208.04% off its 52-week high of $6.13. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.67, which suggests the last value was 16.08% up since then. When we look at Sutro Biopharma Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.82 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.05 million.

Analysts gave the Sutro Biopharma Inc (STRO) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.18. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended STRO as a Hold, 5 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

Sutro Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ:STRO) trade information

Instantly STRO was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 4.74%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 8.15%, with the 5-day performance at 4.74% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Sutro Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ:STRO) is 3.11% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 3.85 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.69 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 12, meaning bulls need an upside of 83.42% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, STRO’s forecast low is 12 with 15 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -653.77% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -503.02% for it to hit the projected low.

Sutro Biopharma Inc (STRO) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Sutro Biopharma 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 -44.57% over the past 6 months, a -52.88% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 15.90%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 21.96%. The 2025 estimates are for Sutro Biopharma Inc earnings to decrease by -62.82%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -17.31% per year.

STRO Dividends

Sutro Biopharma Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in March.

Sutro Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ:STRO)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.94% of Sutro Biopharma Inc shares while 75.42% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 76.13%. There are 75.42% institutions holding the Sutro Biopharma Inc stock share, with SUVRETTA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.4906% of the shares, roughly 7.71 million STRO shares worth $22.59 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.5082% or 6.91 million shares worth $20.25 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. With 2.42 shares estimated at $4.81 million under it, the former controlled 2.93% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.75% of the shares, roughly 2.27 shares worth around $4.52 million.