Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (LXRX) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $2.41, with 2.39 million shares of worth about $5.76 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 107.76% during that period and on March 21, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -3.21%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 244.93M shares, out of which, 238.24M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.82% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.98%. Year-to-date (YTD), LXRX shares are showing a performance of 57.52% which increased to 5.24% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.92 but also hit the highest price of $3.79 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc shares is 4.69 million. The stock is currently trading -1.25% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 9.58% for SMA50 and it goes to 37.61% higher than SMA200.
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Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: LXRX) currently have 244.93M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 74.32% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $590.28M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.28. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.79 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 6.91 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.05. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for LXRX, volatility over the week remained 6.55% while standing at 10.24% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (LXRX) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -$0.2 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.18 and it is -$0.66 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$0.2 which is -$0.19 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 -$0.17 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 10.13% while it is estimated to increase by 7.51% 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 Jefferies on March 07, 2023 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $3 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (LXRX) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on August 12, 2022, suggesting a price target of $10 for the stock. On January 29, 2021, JP Morgan Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 29, 2021, Wedbush Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $8. Stock get a Buy rating from Citigroup on December 08, 2020.
