Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (ATRA): Not A Time To Panic Nor Freeze

After grabbing 10.07 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 10.07 million shares of the Healthcare Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 9.96% having worth around $12.99 million. Moreover, Wasatch Advisors, Inc. increased its share by 0.12 million to have a control over 8.4 million shares. And Redmile Group LLC raised its holdings to 0.23 million shares by acquiring 6.28 million shares or 6.21% of the stake.

Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (ATRA) concluded trading on 12/07/23 at a closing price of $0.69, with 4.12 million shares of worth about $2.84 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -63.04% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 5.30%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 95.93M shares, out of which, 95.88M shares are available for trading.

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A deeper look into what the analysts at Wall Street are thinking about the price target of this stock provides us with the following: 7 analysts are covering the ATRA stock and their offered price forecasts bring an average price target of $9.46. Over the next 12 months, analysts forecasted that the stock’s price could jump as high as $28.00 and could fall to a lowest price of $0.50. The stock’s current price level is 92.71% above of average price target set by the analysts, while a rise to estimated low would result in loss of -38.0% for the stock. However, touching the estimated high of $28.00 would mean a gain of 97.54% for the stock.

According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 39 times over the past 12 months. They bought 1,976,939 shares in 15 of the transactions. In 24 selling transactions, insiders dumped 186,805 shares.

Wasatch Ultra Growth Fund, Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, and JPMorgan Small Cap Growth Fund are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Atara Biotherapeutics Inc Wasatch Ultra Growth Fund is currently holding 3.22 million shares of worth totaling $4.16 million. The company recently came buying 1.34 million shares which brought its stake up to 3.19% of the company’s outstanding shares. JPMorgan Small Cap Growth Fund, after selling 2.4 million shares, have now control over 2.38% of the stake in the company. It holds 7861.0 shares of worth $3.1 million.

Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ATRA) started trading at $0.70, above $0.04 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 0.7098, or with a gain of 5.30%. Stock saw a price change of 5.29% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -47.75%. Year-to-date (YTD), ATRA shares are showing a performance of -78.81% which decreased to -84.49% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.20 but also hit the highest price of $5.64 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Atara Biotherapeutics Inc shares is 3.97 million. The stock is currently trading 24.37% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -35.41% for SMA50 and it goes to -64.72% lower than SMA200.

EcoR1 Capital, LLC acquired 10.07 million shares of Atara Biotherapeutics Inc having value of about $12.99 million. Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ATRA) currently have 95.93M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 98.03% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 35.73% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 63.13% and 13.31% of the stake respectively.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $70.82M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.71. It has posted earnings per share of -$2.77 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.42. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ATRA, volatility over the week remained 11.78% while standing at 24.10% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (ATRA) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -$0.54 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.4 and it is -$1.42 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.62 which is -$0.38 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -$0.72 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -11.24% while it is estimated to increase by 53.31% in next year.

Analysts at 7 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Atara Biotherapeutics Inc (ATRA)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Moderate Buy” and assign it a score of 2.71. Out of those 7 Wall Street analysts, 2 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 4 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 1 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Mizuho on November 09, 2023 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $31 and $1 to it.

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