Semler Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:SMLR) Shares Are Down -8.17 Percent In A Week – But Can The Gains Continue?

In last trading session, Semler Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:SMLR) saw 0.41 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.33. Company’s recent per share price level of $33.85 trading at -$0.21 or -0.62% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $324.84M. That closing price of SMLR’s stock is at a discount of -140.95% from its 52-week high price of $81.56 and is indicating a premium of 38.32% from its 52-week low price of $20.88. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.28 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 411.22K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Semler Scientific Inc (SMLR), 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 1 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 1 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 in the current quarter.

Semler Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:SMLR) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.62%, in the last five days SMLR remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 04/01/25 when the stock touched $33.85 price level, adding 10.52% to its value on the day. Semler Scientific Inc’s shares saw a change of -37.31% in year-to-date performance and have moved -8.17% in past 5-day. Semler Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:SMLR) showed a performance of -6.23% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 1.49 million shares which calculate 3.39 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 40 to the stock, which implies a rise of 15.37% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 40 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 40. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -18.17% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -18.17% 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 22.23% during past 5 years.

Semler Scientific Inc (NASDAQ:SMLR)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 18.35% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 61.70 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 75.57%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 61.70% institutions for Semler Scientific Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. CERITY PARTNERS LLC is the top institutional holder at SMLR for having 0.7 million shares of worth $24.17 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.1172 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 0.35 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 5.0202 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $11.99 million.

On the other hand, SMALLCAP WORLD FUND INC and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 570.61 shares of worth $19.32 million or 8.45% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 153.76 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $5.2 million in the company or a holder of 2.28% of company’s stock.