How Worried Should Investors Be About Humacyte Inc (NASDAQ: HUMA)

Humacyte Inc (NASDAQ:HUMA) does about 3.58M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2983283 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 773.39M USD. Its current market price is $6.48, marking an increase of 5.54% compared to the previous close of $6.14. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $9.97 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.96. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $5 and a low of $4.

Humacyte Inc (HUMA) has a 20-day trading average at $7.75 and the current price is -35.01% off the 52-week high compared with 230.61% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $6.90 and its 200-day simple moving average is $4.45. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 12.15%, which decreases to 10.76% 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 42.85 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $10.80, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 40.0% over the period. The median price target is -44.0% away from the current levels at $4.5.

1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 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 December 11, 2023 when H.C. Wainwright initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $6. Piper Sandler upgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Underweight on August 14, 2023 at a price target of $2.75-$3.50. Cantor Fitzgerald initiated its price target at $6.

Humacyte Inc (HUMA) stock is down -18.08% over the week and -16.22% over the past month. Its price is 128.17% year-to-date and 54.65% over the past year.

Its 12-month price target is $4.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 40.0 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 $4, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $5.

Outstanding shares total 103.67M with insiders holding 30.61% of the shares and institutional holders owning 26.52% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on equity of -850.81%. The beta has a value of 1.54.