Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC)’s traded shares stood at 0.7 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.65. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.75, to imply a decrease of -2.23% or -$0.04 in intraday trading. The ALEC share’s 52-week high remains $7.58, putting it -333.14% down since that peak but still an impressive 9.14% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $1.59. The company has a valuation of $171.38M, with an average of 0.49 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 1.30 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Alector Inc (ALEC), translating to a mean rating of 2.22. Of 4 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give ALEC a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 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 -0.55.
Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) trade information
After registering a -2.23% downside in the last session, Alector Inc (ALEC) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 5.42%, and -11.62% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -7.41%. Short interest in Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) saw shorts transact 5.58 million shares and set a 4.12 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $4 and $4 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, ALEC has been trading -128.57% off suggested target high and -128.57% from its likely low.
Alector Inc (ALEC) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -32.36% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 6 analysts is 21.31M. Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 15.19M and 15.89M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 40.26% before dropping -100.00% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -15.76% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -16.65% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 10.46% annually.
ALEC Dividends
Alector Inc has its next earnings report out in March. 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.
Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC)’s Major holders
Alector Inc insiders hold 9.97% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 96.39% of the shares at 107.07% float percentage. In total, 96.39% institutions holds shares in the company, led by FMR LLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 14.46 million shares (or 15.4111% of shares), all amounting to roughly $65.64 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 9.1 million shares, or about 9.702% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $41.32 million.
We also have Fidelity Growth Company Fund and Fidelity Select Portfolios – Biotechnology as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Alector Inc (ALEC) shares. Going by data provided on Nov 30, 2024 , Fidelity Growth Company Fund holds roughly 3.66 shares. This is just over 3.74% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $6.4 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 3.54, or 3.61% of the shares, all valued at about 6.19 million.
