The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About AbCellera Biologics Inc (NASDAQ: ABCL)

AbCellera Biologics Inc (NASDAQ:ABCL) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.99M but it saw 2654710 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 700.27M USD, the company’s current market price of $2.35 came rising about 5.38 while comparing to the previous closing price of $2.23. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $4.98 and as low as $2.11. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $2.26 while lowest mark touched by it was $2.36.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of AbCellera Biologics Inc (ABCL) gives us an average price of $2.77, while its current price level is -52.81% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 11.37% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $2.99 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $2.91. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.24% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 7.44%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 35.96 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The Benchmark Company upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on February 22, 2024 while assigning a price target of $9. KeyBanc Capital Markets issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $6.

Over the week, ABCL’s stock price is moving -1.67% down while it is -22.19% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -19.80% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -50.73%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-26, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.14 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.66. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $6.71M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $26.29M and seeing the company making $34.76M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $7.12M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, AbCellera Biologics Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 295.76M with 22.88% of that held by the insiders while 42.47% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -14.58% and return on equity (ROE) at -14.75%. Stock’s beta reads 0.50. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.66 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 24.29. Its return on asset (ROA) is -11.43% on average.