During the last session, Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN)’s traded shares were 9.64 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.68. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $1.26, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.82% or -$0.05. The 52-week high for the GERN share is $5.34, that puts it down -323.81 from that peak though still a striking 7.14% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $1.17. The company’s market capitalization is $802.51M, and the average trade volume was 15.66 million shares over the past three months.
Geron Corp (GERN) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.78. GERN has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 5 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 4 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) trade information
Geron Corp (GERN) registered a -3.82% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.82% in intraday trading to $1.26, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -11.89%, and it has moved by -1.56% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -66.22%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4, which implies an increase of 68.5% 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, GERN is trading at a discount of -217.46% off the target high and -217.46% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 5.60%. While earnings are projected to return 52.66% in 2025.
GERN Dividends
Geron Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
The next largest institutional holding, with 46.2 million shares, is of RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P.’s that is approximately 7.0656% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $195.9 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Geron Corp (GERN) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 17.67 shares. This amounts to just over 2.77 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $22.26 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 15.53, or about 2.44% of the stock, which is worth about $19.57 million.
