Elanco Animal Health Inc (NYSE: ELAN): Analyst View Points To Future Growth

Elanco Animal Health Inc (ELAN) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $9.19, with 5.91 million shares of worth about $54.32 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -29.14% during that period and on April 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.37%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 494.45M shares, out of which, 491.76M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 11.53% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -14.03%. Year-to-date (YTD), ELAN shares are showing a performance of -24.11% which decreased to -29.03% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $8.02 but also hit the highest price of $18.80 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Elanco Animal Health Inc shares is 5.17 million. The stock is currently trading -1.32% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -10.46% for SMA50 and it goes to -26.35% lower than SMA200.

Elanco Animal Health Inc (NYSE: ELAN) currently have 494.45M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 99.43% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $4.56B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.51. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.54, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.68 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.33 and has Quick Ratio of 1.25 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.73. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ELAN, volatility over the week remained 4.07% while standing at 6.52% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -10.08% while it is estimated to increase by 16.43% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 5.81% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 29.95% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

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 UBS on December 09, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $18 to it. Coverage by Leerink Partners stated Elanco Animal Health Inc (ELAN) stock as a Market perform in their note to investors on December 02, 2024, suggesting a price target of $14 for the stock. On September 19, 2024, Morgan Stanley Downgrade their recommendations, while on January 05, 2024, Stifel Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $20. Stock get a Buy rating from Jefferies on December 19, 2023.

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