Seres Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: MCRB) Trading under Its 20 Day MA ($0.7758), Why Showing An Interesting Price Pattern?

Seres Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:MCRB) does about 4.77M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2877400 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 110.60M USD. Its current market price is $0.73, marking a decrease of -3.96% compared to the previous close of $0.76. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.87 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.71.

Seres Therapeutics Inc (MCRB) has a 20-day trading average at $0.7758 and the current price is -89.34% off the 52-week high compared with 3.11% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.9690 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.1454. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 6.67%, which increases to 8.06% 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 35.91 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $7.22, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 89.89% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on June 26, 2023 when Oppenheimer resumed the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $12. Goldman downgraded its price target at $24-$7.

Seres Therapeutics Inc (MCRB) stock is down -4.51% over the week and -25.27% over the past month. Its price is -47.69% year-to-date and -86.94% 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 -$0.32 above consensus estimates by $0.18. MCRB’s earnings per share are forecast to shrink by -28.10% this year and 29.80% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $250k, which analysts say will come at $1.36 million for the current fiscal year and next year at $9.17 million. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $250k.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 89.89 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 135.04M with insiders holding 5.68% of the shares and institutional holders owning 59.48% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -70.03% and return on equity of -538.57%. The beta has a value of 2.25. Price to sales ratio is 0.88.