The Vanguard Group, Inc. has recently announced that it has increased stake in Clene Inc (NASDAQ:CLNN) by 11.55%. After grabbing 2.45 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 0.25 million shares of the Healthcare Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 1.91% having worth around $1.07 million. Moreover, Scoggin Management LP increased its share by 0.25 million to have a control over 0.75 million shares. And Geode Capital Management LLC raised its holdings to 0.3 million shares by acquiring 0.61 million shares or 0.48% of the stake.
Clene Inc (CLNN) concluded trading on 12/27/23 at a closing price of $0.26, with 3.06 million shares of worth about $0.79 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -68.29% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -5.63%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 74.76M shares, out of which, 68.53M shares are available for trading.
3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode
The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.
We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.
Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 7 times over the past 12 months. They bought 10,716,292 shares in 7 of the transactions. In 0 selling transactions, insiders dumped 0 shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, Vanguard Extended Market Index Fu, and Fidelity Extended Market Index Fu are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Clene Inc Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF is currently holding 1.91 million shares of worth totaling $0.84 million. The company recently came buying 0.0 shares which brought its stake up to 1.49% of the company’s outstanding shares. Vanguard Extended Market Index Fu bought 0.15 million shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares expand to 0.49%, leaving 0.63 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $0.28 million. Fidelity Extended Market Index Fu, after selling 0.46 million shares, have now control over 0.36% of the stake in the company. It holds 25330.0 shares of worth $0.2 million.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 0.2867, or with a loss of -5.63%. Stock saw a price change of -52.30% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -43.48%. Year-to-date (YTD), CLNN shares are showing a performance of -74.00% which decreased to -74.26% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.27 but also hit the highest price of $1.99 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Clene Inc shares is 602.51K. The stock is currently trading -36.63% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -39.56% for SMA50 and it goes to -65.06% lower than SMA200.
The Vanguard Group, Inc. acquired 2.45 million shares of Clene Inc having value of about $1.07 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by The Vanguard Group, Inc. revealed that the firm now holds 0.25 million shares in the company valued at close to $65860.34, or have control over 11.55% stake in the company. Clene Inc (NASDAQ: CLNN) currently have 74.76M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 28.05% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 2.61% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 28.88% and 14.51% of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $20.38M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.50. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.48 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 3.04 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.49. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CLNN, volatility over the week remained 19.35% while standing at 13.48% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Clene Inc (CLNN) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -$0.07 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.08 and it is -$0.32 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.08 which is -$0.06 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 -$0.01 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -2.17% while it is estimated to increase by 34.04% in next year.
Analysts at 5 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Clene Inc (CLNN)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Strong Buy” and assign it a score of 1.00. Out of those 5 Wall Street analysts, 5 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 0 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
