Currently, there are 119.58M common shares owned by the public and among those 111.15M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 148 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 69 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 126,636 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 79 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 763,111 shares.
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The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 26.89% and 57.86% over the past three months. NTRA shares are trading 42.74% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 64.72% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $36.90 and touched a high of $90.60 over the same period. NTRA has an average intraday trading volume of 1.47 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 25.21%, 34.49%, and 65.67% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Natera Inc (NASDAQ: NTRA) shares accounts for 92.38% of the company’s 119.58M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $10.80B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.38. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$3.80. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.83% over the week and 3.41% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Natera Inc (NTRA) will achieve an EPS of -$0.73 for the current quarter, -$0.65 for the next quarter and -$1.3 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -$0.82 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -$0.65. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -$1.23 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 37.32%, and 48.44% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the NTRA, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Raymond James stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on February 20, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $68-$85. BTIG Research coverage for the Natera Inc (NTRA) stock in a research note released on December 29, 2023 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $85. Guggenheim was of a view on December 14, 2023 that the stock is Buy, while Wolfe Research gave the stock Outperform rating on December 13, 2023, issuing a price target of $70. Raymond James on their part issued Strong Buy rating on November 13, 2023.
