BTIG Research raised the price target for the Cerus Corp. (NASDAQ:CERS) stock from “a Buy” to “a Neutral”. The rating was released on January 20, 2023, according to finviz. The research report from BTIG Research has resumed the stock to Buy, with a price target set at $9. The stock was resumed by Cantor Fitzgerald, who disclosed in a research note on June 16, 2020, to Overweight and set the price objective to $9. In their research brief published February 26, 2020, BTIG Research analysts initiated the Cerus Corp. stock to Buy with a price target of $7.
Historical Earnings Surprises and Revenue Forecasts
Profit is the most critical financial performance measure. Every investor in a business is looking forward to the earnings report as stock price to increase when earnings exceed market expectations and progressively decrease when earnings do not meet expectations. The firm reported an earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.01 during the last quarter as opposed to a consensus estimate of -$0.02, which indicates the company beat its estimate by $0.01, which implies that the company surprised the market by 50.00%. It appears that the average earnings per share estimate for the current quarter (ending in Mar 2024) is -$0.05. This is an average of 5 analysts’ earnings, where the high earnings per share estimate is -$0.04 and the low earnings per share estimate is -$0.07. According to 5 analyst estimates, an average revenue estimate of $40.78M is projected for the current quarter with a high revenue estimate of $44.8M and a low estimate of $36.4M.
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The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated -9.31% within the last five trades and -22.15% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price increased 30.15% in the last 6 months and -16.42% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. CERS stock is trading at a margin of -9.98%, -17.68% and -11.79% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, CERS deals in the Healthcare domain. The stock is trading -44.64 percent below its 52-week high and 41.49 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -45.67. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Cerus Corp.’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at -36.30 percent and the profit margin is -23.98 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 54.84 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $309.08 million as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 1.98 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 5.87, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 5.15 percent of Cerus Corp. shares are owned by insiders, and 74.41 percent are held by financial institutions. Greenman William Mariner, the President and CEO at Cerus Corp. (CERS) has sold 63,611 shares of firm on Mar 14 ’24 at a price of $2.02 against the total amount of $0.13 million. In another inside trade, Jayaraman Vivek K, Chief Operating Officer of Cerus Corp. (NASDAQ:CERS) sold 26,794 shares of the firm on Mar 14 ’24 for a total worth of $52902.0 at a price of $1.97. An inside trade which took place on Mar 14 ’24, Chief Financial Officer of Cerus Corp. Green Kevin Dennis sold 21,497 shares of firm against total price of $42444.0 at the cost of $1.97 per share.
