Absci Corp (NASDAQ:ABSI), Stock Drops -55.79% Far This Year; What Analysts Say Next?

In last trading session, Absci Corp (NASDAQ:ABSI) saw 3.36 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 2.24. Company’s recent per share price level of $2.48 trading at $0.08 or 3.33% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $315.79M. That closing price of ABSI’s stock is at a discount of -170.97% from its 52-week high price of $6.72 and is indicating a premium of 5.65% from its 52-week low price of $2.34. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 3.23 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 5.68 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Absci Corp (ABSI), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

Absci Corp (NASDAQ:ABSI) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 3.33%, in the last five days ABSI remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 03/27/25 when the stock touched $2.48 price level, adding 15.36% to its value on the day. Absci Corp’s shares saw a change of -5.34% in year-to-date performance and have moved -14.48% in past 5-day. Absci Corp (NASDAQ:ABSI) showed a performance of -24.16% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 18.83 million shares which calculate 3.74 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 6 to the stock, which implies a rise of 58.67% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 6 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 6. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -141.94% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -141.94% for stock’s current value.

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 -29.30% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 10.50% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 18.89%.

Absci Corp (NASDAQ:ABSI)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 15.17% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 58.42 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 68.86%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 58.42% institutions for Absci Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. FMR LLC is the top institutional holder at ABSI for having 12.58 million shares of worth $38.75 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.1398 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is REDMILE GROUP, LLC, which was holding about 8.25 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.3081 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $25.42 million.