Exicure Inc (NASDAQ:XCUR) does about 1.08M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3679019 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 12.64M USD. Its current market price is $5.82, marking an increase of 47.72% compared to the previous close of $3.94. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.00 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.44. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $12 and a low of $12.
Exicure Inc (XCUR) has a 20-day trading average at $2.97 and the current price is -3.00% off the 52-week high compared with 304.17% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.89 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.56. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 28.41%, which decreases to 16.22% 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 76.71 to suggest the stock is overbought.
The consensus objective for the share price is $10.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 41.8% over the period. The median price target is 51.5% away from the current levels at $12.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on December 13, 2021 when Chardan Capital Markets downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $2.25 and $0.40. Guggenheim initiated its price target at $9.
The current price level is 95.70%, 101.62%, and 127.19% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the XCUR price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Exicure Inc (XCUR) stock is up 80.75% over the week and 122.14% over the past month. Its price is 100.59% year-to-date and 97.29% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $12. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 41.8 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 $12, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $12.
The company has a return on investment of -57.44% and return on equity of -132.62%. The beta has a value of 1.28. Price to book ratio is 8.18 and price to sales ratio is 25.29.
