Are Investors Eager To Sell Holdings In ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: SPRY)?

ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SPRY) price is hovering higher on Tuesday, March 26, jumping 6.46% above its previous close.

A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $9.13. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $9.65 and 52-week low of $2.55. The stock added 11.09% on its value in the past month.

ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc, which has a market valuation of $937.98 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report May 13, 2024 – May 17, 2024. Analysts tracking SPRY have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.15 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$0.69 for the year 2024 and up to -$0.34 for 2025. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of -21.10% for the year and 50.70% for the next year.

Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $5.54 million for the company’s annual revenue in 2024. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 18,366.70% above that which the company brought in 2024.

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 1 upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give SPRY a short term outlook of 100% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Buy.

The overview shows that SPRY’s price is at present 10.47% off the SMA20 and 28.39% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 65.96, with weekly volatility standing at 6.30%. The indicator jumps to 5.92% when calculated based on the past 30 days. ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SPRY)’s beta value is holding at 0.79, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.50.

An analysis of the ARS Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SPRY) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 560.37K. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 0.98 million.

Current records show that the company has 96.41M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 56.81% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 40.66%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Feb 29, 2024, stood at 4.61 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 7.64. From this we can glean that short interest is 4.80% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in February fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 4.86 million. But the 77.37% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.

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