Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:ESPR) price closed higher on Monday, November 20, jumping 2.52% above its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $1.19, with intraday deals fluctuated between $1.15 and $1.30. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 0.30. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $8.87 and 52-week low of $0.70. The stock added 48.60% on its value in the past month.
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Esperion Therapeutics Inc., which has a market valuation of $138.74 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Feb 19, 2024 – Feb 23, 2024. Analysts tracking ESPR have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.42 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$1.96 for the year 2023 and up to -$0.05 for 2024. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of 44.30% for the year and 97.40% for the next year.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $30 million, with the likely lows of $20.67 million and highs of $38.1 million. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely rise by 59.40% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $114.11 million for the company’s annual revenue in 2023. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 51.20% above that which the company brought in 2023.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give ESPR a short term outlook of 50% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.
The overview shows that ESPR’s price is at present 31.49% off the SMA20 and 23.62% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 64.83, with weekly volatility standing at 14.16%. The indicator jumps to 11.50% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:ESPR)’s beta value is holding at 0.46, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.12. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $2.00-$22.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $8.25. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly -63.93% off the estimated low and -1703.28% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $7.00, which is the median consensus price, and at that level ESPR would be -473.77% from current price.
Turning out attention to how the Esperion Therapeutics Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: ESPR’s stock is 2.52% on the day and -82.70% in the past 12 months, while Amicus Therapeutics Inc. (FOLD) traded 2.41%% in the last session and was positioned -4.42% down on its price 12 months ago. Turning out attention to how the Esperion Therapeutics Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: ESPR’s stock is 2.52% on the day and -82.70% in the past 12 months, while Amicus Therapeutics Inc. (FOLD) traded 2.41%% in the last session and was positioned -4.42% down on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with Pfizer Inc. (PFE) whose stock price was up 0.20%% in the last trading session, and has flourished -38.92% over the past year. Also, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (REGN) showed down trend of -0.10%% while its price kept floating at 7.00% over the past year. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has rallied 0.74% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a positive session on the day with 0.58%.
An analysis of the Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:ESPR) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 3.93 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 3.55 million.
Current records show that the company has 113.72M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 1.02% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 77.72%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Oct 30, 2023, stood at 18.22 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 5.06. From this we can glean that short interest is 16.25% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in October fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 19.81 million. But the -80.42% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
