Scilex Holding Company (NASDAQ:SCLX) does about 886.49K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1501145 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 240.98M USD. Its current market price is $1.33, marking an increase of 18.75% compared to the previous close of $1.12. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $8.30 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.73.
Scilex Holding Company (SCLX) has a 20-day trading average at $1.0734 and the current price is -83.98% off the 52-week high compared with 81.79% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.0723 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.5390. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 12.13%, which decreases to 11.61% 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 65.15 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $8.33, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 84.03% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 16, 2023 when B. Riley Securities initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $4. H.C. Wainwright initiated its price target at $12.
Scilex Holding Company (SCLX) stock is up 22.02% over the week and 78.43% over the past month. Its price is -34.80% year-to-date and -79.76% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 3/31/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.63 below consensus estimates by -0.46. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.2 and -0.75 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $16.2M, which analysts say will come at $58.99M for the current fiscal year and next year at $105.37M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $13.21M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 84.03 percent from here.
The company has a return on equity of -163.31%. The beta has a value of 1.03. Price to sales ratio is 5.12.
