Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN)’s traded shares stood at 6.76 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.68. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.56, to imply an increase of 1.30% or $0.02 in intraday trading. The GERN share’s 52-week high remains $5.34, putting it -242.31% down since that peak but still an impressive 25.0% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $1.17. The company has a valuation of $993.59M, with an average of 12.03 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 12.70 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Geron Corp (GERN), translating to a mean rating of 1.78. Of 5 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give GERN a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 4 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.03.
Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) trade information
After registering a 1.30% upside in the last session, Geron Corp (GERN) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 0.00%, and 30.00% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -55.93%. Short interest in Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) saw shorts transact 64.58 million shares and set a 5.14 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $4 and $4 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, GERN has been trading -156.41% off suggested target high and -156.41% from its likely low.
Geron Corp (GERN) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 158.10% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 7 analysts is 46.85M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 7 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 52.35M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 882k and 28.27M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 5,212.10% before jumping 85.16% in the following quarter.
GERN Dividends
Geron Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-May-06. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.
Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN)’s Major holders
Geron Corp insiders hold 0.09% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 81.23% of the shares at 81.30% float percentage. In total, 81.23% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 46.55 million shares (or 7.1191% of shares), all amounting to roughly $197.38 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. with 46.2 million shares, or about 7.0656% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $195.9 million.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Geron Corp (GERN) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 18.82 shares. This is just over 2.96% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $29.36 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 14.48, or 2.27% of the shares, all valued at about 22.6 million.
