In the latest trading session, 2.58 million Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.80. With the company’s most recent per share price at $1.37 changed hands at -$0.01 or -0.98% at last look, the market valuation stands at $870.33M. GERN’s current price is a discount, trading about -289.78% off its 52-week high of $5.34. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.33, which suggests the last value was 2.92% up since then. When we look at Geron Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 16.24 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 15.10 million.
Analysts gave the Geron Corp (GERN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.56. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended GERN as a Hold, 4 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) trade information
Instantly GERN was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -14.06%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -61.40%, with the 5-day performance at -14.06% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) is -21.01% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 45.63 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.23 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 5.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 75.09% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, GERN’s forecast low is 4 with 8 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -483.94% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -191.97% for it to hit the projected low.
Geron Corp (GERN) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 5.60%. The 2025 estimates are for Geron Corp earnings to increase by 61.30%.
Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.09% of Geron Corp shares while 82.98% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 83.05%. There are 82.98% institutions holding the Geron Corp stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 7.1191% of the shares, roughly 46.55 million GERN shares worth $197.38 million.
RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.0656% or 46.2 million shares worth $195.9 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF. With 17.67 shares estimated at $23.77 million under it, the former controlled 2.77% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.38% of the shares, roughly 15.18 shares worth around $20.42 million.
