IO Biotech Inc (IOBT) Reports -63.05% Fall From For 52 Week High, It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn

IO Biotech Inc (NASDAQ:IOBT) does about 229.31K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 5316487 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 51.07M USD. Its current market price is $0.78, marking an increase of 3.22% compared to the previous close of $0.75. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $2.10 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.73.

IO Biotech Inc (IOBT) has a 20-day trading average at $1.2121 and the current price is -63.05% off the 52-week high compared with 5.80% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.2980 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.4729. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 11.07%, which decreases to 9.49% 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 28.90 to suggest the stock is oversold.

The consensus objective for the share price is $8.20, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 90.49% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 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 current price level is -37.65%, -40.67%, and -47.47% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the IOBT price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. IO Biotech Inc (IOBT) stock is down -13.68% over the week and -42.58% over the past month. Its price is -58.77% year-to-date and -47.27% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 6/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.43 above consensus estimates by 0.01. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.29 and -1.2 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 90.49 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -90.04% and return on equity of -87.66%. The beta has a value of 0.57. Price to book ratio is 0.53.