Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Bionano Genomics Inc (BNGO)

Bionano Genomics Inc (NASDAQ:BNGO) does about 1.47M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2212086 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 38.09M USD. Its current market price is $0.55, marking a decrease of -6.12% compared to the previous close of $0.59. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.00 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.52. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $175 and a low of $2.

Bionano Genomics Inc (BNGO) has a 20-day trading average at $0.6208 and the current price is -90.81% off the 52-week high compared with 5.98% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.7439 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.1441. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 9.08%, which increases to 10.09% 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 35.69 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.93, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 88.84% over the period. The median price target is 99.38% away from the current levels at $88.5.

4 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 05, 2023 when Scotiabank initiated the stock to “Sector Outperform” and issued a price target of $4. Oppenheimer resumed its price target at $12.

Bionano Genomics Inc (BNGO) stock is down -12.11% over the week and -3.45% over the past month. Its price is -70.84% year-to-date and -90.45% over the past year.

Its 12-month price target is $88.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 88.84 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $2, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $175.

The company has a return on investment of -254.53% and return on equity of -144.33%. The beta has a value of 2.35. Price to book ratio is 0.38 and price to sales ratio is 1.02.