Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN) price on current trading day, rose 8.59% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.39.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $1.28, moving within a range at $1.19 and $1.395. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.659. Turning to its 52-week performance, $5.34 and $1.26 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, GERN moved -13.13% over the past month.
Geron Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $885.30 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-25.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 49.88M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 46.96M and 54.3M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 16,309.12% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 235.46M, representing a 205.82% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that GERN is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
5 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 4 recommend GERN as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
GERN’s current price about -13.37% and -32.42% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 34.90, while 7-day volatility ratio is 12.35% and 8.60% in the 30-day chart. Further, Geron Corp (GERN) has a beta value of 0.85, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.14. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $5.5, forecast between a low of $4 and high of $8. Looking at the price targets, the low is -187.77% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -475.54%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -295.68% jump to $5.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Geron Corp (NASDAQ:GERN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 16.81 over the past 10 days and 15.21 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 606.39 million shares.
The 6.13% of Geron Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 76.59% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 45.63 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 2.23. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Geron Corp (GERN) stood at 719.9999999999999 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 69.77 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -60.73% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the GERN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
