In the last trading session, 8.12 million Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.65. With the company’s per share price at $1.39 changed hands at $0.0 or 0.00% during last session, the market valuation stood at $885.32M. GERN’s last price was a discount, traded about -284.17% off its 52-week high of $5.34. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.17, which suggests the last value was 15.83% up since then.
Analysts gave the Geron Corp (GERN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.78. 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’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.03.
Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) trade information
The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -60.73%, with the 5-day performance at 15.83% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) is 2.96% up.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 4, meaning bulls need an upside of 65.25% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, GERN’s forecast low is 4 with 4 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -187.77% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -187.77% for it to hit the projected low.
Geron Corp (GERN) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 158.10% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 7 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 46.85M. 7 analysts are of the opinion that Geron Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 52.35M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 882k and 28.27M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 5,212.10%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 85.16%.
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 52.66%.
GERN Dividends
Geron Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in June.
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 $24.56 million under it, the former controlled 2.77% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.44% of the shares, roughly 15.53 shares worth around $21.59 million.
