Agenus Inc (NASDAQ:AGEN) does about 10.63M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 5081623 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 228.77M USD. Its current market price is $0.55, marking a decrease of -2.86% compared to the previous close of $0.56. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $2.13 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.49.
Agenus Inc (AGEN) has a 20-day trading average at $0.6453 and the current price is -74.36% off the 52-week high compared with 12.60% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.6573 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.0526. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 9.82%, which increases to 9.95% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 37.70 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $5.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 90.0% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on June 06, 2023 when Robert W. Baird initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $8. H.C. Wainwright resumed its price target at $8.
Agenus Inc (AGEN) stock is up 1.13% over the week and -19.10% over the past month. Its price is -34.04% year-to-date and -63.39% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.13 below consensus estimates by -$0.08. AGEN’s earnings per share are forecast to grow by 53.60% this year and -115.60% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $66.56 million, which analysts say will come at $191.52 million for the current fiscal year and next year at $199.22 million. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $41.46 million.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 90.0 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 418.92M with insiders holding 1.18% of the shares and institutional holders owning 59.06% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -556.21%. The beta has a value of 1.25. Price to sales ratio is 1.46.
