During the last session, Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:PLRX)’s traded shares were 1.89 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.32. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $1.58, reflecting an intraday gain of 3.95% or $0.06. The 52-week high for the PLRX share is $16.52, that puts it down -945.57 from that peak though still a striking 20.25% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $1.26. The company’s market capitalization is $96.75M, and the average trade volume was 2.28 million shares over the past three months.
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.69. PLRX has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 5 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 5 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.76.
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:PLRX) trade information
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) registered a 3.95% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 3.95% in intraday trading to $1.58, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -51.53%, and it has moved by -86.10% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -90.36%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $35.5, which implies an increase of 95.55% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $33 and $38 respectively. As a result, PLRX is trading at a discount of -2305.06% off the target high and -1988.61% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -78.30%. While earnings are projected to return 23.30% in 2025, the next five years will return 15.87% per annum.
PLRX Dividends
Pliant Therapeutics Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in April. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
The next largest institutional holding, with 4.97 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.2612% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $53.45 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) shares are Price (T.Rowe) New Horizons Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that Price (T.Rowe) New Horizons Fund owns about 2.34 shares. This amounts to just over 3.82 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $3.7 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.03, or about 3.32% of the stock, which is worth about $3.21 million.
