Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (ESPR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $2.66, with 2.99 million shares of worth about $7.95 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 73.86% during that period and on Thursday the price saw a gain of about 1.92%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 170.42M shares, out of which, 169.06M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 31 times over the past 12 months. They bought 286,561 shares in 17 of the transactions. In 14 selling transactions, insiders dumped 30,004 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 2.6800, or with a gain of 1.92%. Stock saw a price change of 3.10% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 3.50%. Year-to-date (YTD), ESPR shares are showing a performance of -11.04% which decreased to -53.58% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.70 but also hit the highest price of $6.74 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Esperion Therapeutics Inc. shares is 6.17 million. The stock is currently trading 16.21% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 16.57% for SMA50 and it goes to 71.49% higher than SMA200.
Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPR) currently have 170.42M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 51.40% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $453.32M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.81. It has posted earnings per share of -$2.37 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.21. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ESPR, volatility over the week remained 7.13% while standing at 10.88% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Esperion Therapeutics Inc. (ESPR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, In in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $30.27 and it is $Stocks for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $Express, Inc. which is $EPR Properties 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 $Jasper Therapeutics, Inc. in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 42.41% while it is estimated to increase by 86.32% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 16.90% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.80% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
