89bio Inc Is Forecast To Drop -214.53% To Hit Consensus Price Target

In the last trading session, 1.98 million 89bio Inc (NASDAQ:ETNB) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.33. With the company’s per share price at $9.22 changed hands at -$0.91 or -8.98% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.34B. ETNB’s last price was a discount, traded about -80.37% off its 52-week high of $16.63. The share price had its 52-week low at $5.99, which suggests the last value was 35.03% up since then.

Analysts gave the 89bio Inc (ETNB) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.22. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 1 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended ETNB as a Hold, 7 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. 89bio Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.76.

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Instantly ETNB was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -15.57%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 17.90%, with the 5-day performance at -15.57% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, 89bio Inc (NASDAQ:ETNB) is 29.31% up.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 25, meaning bulls need an upside of 63.12% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, ETNB’s forecast low is 12 with 29 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -214.53% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -30.15% for it to hit the projected low.

According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 0.00%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 0.00%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -11.24%. The 2025 estimates are for 89bio Inc earnings to decrease by -59.99%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at -10.60% per year.

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89bio Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in March.

JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 13.2986% or 13.28 million shares worth $106.32 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Janus Henderson Global Life Sciences Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 2.97 shares estimated at $27.34 million under it, the former controlled 2.79% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 2.49% of the shares, roughly 2.65 shares worth around $24.4 million.