Mersana Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:MRSN) price on Wednesday, April 30, rose 17.19% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.43.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.37, moving within a range at $0.3511 and $0.4422. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.665. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.63 and $0.26 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MRSN moved 25.77% over the past month.
Mersana Therapeutics Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $53.95 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-02.
The average forecast suggests down to a -34.58% 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 27.62M, representing a -31.79% decline 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 MRSN is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend MRSN 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.
MRSN’s current price about 27.36% and 2.77% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 57.96, while 7-day volatility ratio is 13.16% and 14.92% in the 30-day chart. Further, Mersana Therapeutics Inc (MRSN) has a beta value of 1.33, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.05. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $3, forecast between a low of $3 and high of $3. Looking at the price targets, the low is -597.67% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -597.67%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -597.67% jump to $3 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Mersana Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:MRSN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.36 over the past 10 days and 3.51 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 115.65 million shares.
The 31.15% of Mersana Therapeutics Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 54.69% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 10.06 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 3.24. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Mersana Therapeutics Inc (MRSN) stood at 1056.0001 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 8.69 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -69.73% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MRSN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
