Schrodinger Inc (NASDAQ: SDGR) Surprises Bears, Looks Strong In The Long Term

In the last trading session, 1.08 million Schrodinger Inc (NASDAQ:SDGR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.70. With the company’s per share price at $22.90 changed hands at -$0.83 or -3.50% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.67B. SDGR’s last price was a discount, traded about -27.29% off its 52-week high of $29.15. The share price had its 52-week low at $16.67, which suggests the last value was 27.21% up since then. When we look at Schrodinger Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.92 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 958.42K.

Analysts gave the Schrodinger Inc (SDGR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.55. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended SDGR as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.

Schrodinger Inc (NASDAQ:SDGR) trade information

Instantly SDGR was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 5.72%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 18.71%, with the 5-day performance at 5.72% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Schrodinger Inc (NASDAQ:SDGR) is -7.85% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 9.25 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 8.63 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 27.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 16.73% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, SDGR’s forecast low is 27 with 28 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -22.27% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -17.9% for it to hit the projected low.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -45.98%. The 2025 estimates are for Schrodinger Inc earnings to increase by 6.37%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 25.68% per year.

SDGR Dividends

Schrodinger Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-25.

Schrodinger Inc (NASDAQ:SDGR)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.49% of Schrodinger Inc shares while 97.93% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 100.44%. There are 97.93% institutions holding the Schrodinger Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.7797% of the shares, roughly 8.52 million SDGR shares worth $164.69 million.

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION TRUST holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.6018% or 6.98 million shares worth $135.03 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jan 31, 2025 were iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and ARK ETF Tr-ARK Genomic Revolution ETF . With 3.56 shares estimated at $81.57 million under it, the former controlled 5.58% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, ARK ETF Tr-ARK Genomic Revolution ETF held about 3.35% of the shares, roughly 2.14 shares worth around $49.07 million.