Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) At $1.45: Does It Look Expensive?

In last trading session, Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) saw 0.39 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.67. Company’s recent per share price level of $1.45 trading at $0.02 or 1.40% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $143.67M. That closing price of ALEC’s stock is at a discount of -367.59% from its 52-week high price of $6.78 and is indicating a premium of 10.34% from its 52-week low price of $1.30. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.86 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 899.46K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Alector Inc (ALEC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.22. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 4 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.46 in the current quarter.

Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 1.40%, in the last five days ALEC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 03/12/25 when the stock touched $1.45 price level, adding 8.23% to its value on the day. Alector Inc’s shares saw a change of -23.28% in year-to-date performance and have moved 0.69% in past 5-day. Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) showed a performance of -11.59% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 5.52 million shares which calculate 8.94 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 4 to the stock, which implies a rise of 63.75% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 4 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 4. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -175.86% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -175.86% for stock’s current value.

Alector Inc (ALEC) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -85.95% from the last financial year’s standing.

2 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 4.25M for the same. And 2 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 4.25M in the next quarter. Company posted 15.89M and 15.08M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 6.31% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -46.97% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 4.91%.

Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 13.37% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 83.11 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 95.94%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 83.11% institutions for Alector Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. FMR LLC is the top institutional holder at ALEC for having 14.46 million shares of worth $65.64 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.9545 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 9.1 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.702 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $41.32 million.

On the other hand, Fidelity Growth Company Fund and Fidelity Select Portfolios – Biotechnology are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 3.63 shares of worth $5.26 million or 3.66% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 3.54 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $5.13 million in the company or a holder of 3.57% of company’s stock.