During the last session, Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC)’s traded shares were 0.39 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.70. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $1.29, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.01% or -$0.04. The 52-week high for the ALEC share is $6.78, that puts it down -425.58 from that peak though still a striking 2.33% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $1.26. The company’s market capitalization is $127.82M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.48 million shares, and the average trade volume was 727.24K shares over the past three months.
Alector Inc (ALEC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.12. ALEC has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 4 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) trade information
Alector Inc (ALEC) registered a -3.01% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.01% in intraday trading to $1.29, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -4.44%, and it has moved by -22.29% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -78.36%. The short interest in Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC) is 5.35 million shares and it means that shorts have 6.57 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4, which implies an increase of 67.75% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $4 and $4 respectively. As a result, ALEC is trading at a discount of -210.08% off the target high and -210.08% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 6.31%. While earnings are projected to return -63.83% in 2025, the next five years will return 4.34% per annum.
ALEC Dividends
Alector Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-25. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Alector Inc (NASDAQ:ALEC)’s Major holders
Alector Inc insiders own 13.37% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 83.10%, with the float percentage being 95.92%. FMR LLC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 223.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 14.46 million shares (or 14.9545% of all shares), a total value of $65.64 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 9.1 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 9.4145% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $41.32 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Alector Inc (ALEC) shares are Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust-Fidelity Growth Company Fund and Fidelity Select Portfolios-Biotechnology Portfolio . Data provided on Jan 31, 2025 indicates that Fidelity Mt. Vernon Street Trust-Fidelity Growth Company Fund owns about 3.62 shares. This amounts to just over 3.66 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $4.67 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.54, or about 3.57% of the stock, which is worth about $4.56 million.
