Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS) concluded trading on Thursady at a closing price of $59.49, with 4.62 million shares of worth about $274.57 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -27.33% during that period and on Thursady the price saw a loss of about -6.00%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 181.36M shares, out of which, 179.07M 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 58 times over the past 12 months. They bought 140,344 shares in 30 of the transactions. In 28 selling transactions, insiders dumped 119,217 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 63.74, or with a loss of -6.00%. Stock saw a price change of -4.19% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -9.40%. Year-to-date (YTD), EXAS shares are showing a performance of -19.59% which decreased to -2.89% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $58.37 but also hit the highest price of $100.77 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Exact Sciences Corp. shares is 1.76 million. The stock is currently trading -5.59% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -10.71% for SMA50 and it goes to -21.17% lower than SMA200.
Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS) currently have 181.36M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 90.27% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.76B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.26. It has posted earnings per share of -$1.14 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 2.07 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for EXAS, volatility over the week remained 5.45% while standing at 3.90% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -$0.38 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.25 and it is $0.09 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.49 which is -$0.2 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 -$0.42 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 24.29% while it is estimated to increase by 112.90% in next year.
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 The Benchmark Company on January 02, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $91 to it. Coverage by Guggenheim stated Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on December 14, 2023, suggesting a price target of $90 for the stock. On December 13, 2023, Wolfe Research Initiated their recommendations, while on October 10, 2023, Piper Sandler Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $90. Stock get an Outperform rating from Bernstein on September 28, 2023.
