Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (LXRX) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $0.61, with 5.56 million shares of worth about $3.39 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -37.08% during that period and on May 21, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 7.65%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 363.18M shares, out of which, 177.07M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 15.36% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.75%. Year-to-date (YTD), LXRX shares are showing a performance of -16.91% which decreased to -66.65% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.28 but also hit the highest price of $2.45 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc shares is 15.53 million. The stock is currently trading -5.57% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 15.24% for SMA50 and it goes to -39.60% lower than SMA200.
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: LXRX) currently have 363.18M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 26.38% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $222.85M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.03. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.51 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 2.22 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.86. 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 9.25% while standing at 10.09% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 49.60% while it is estimated to increase by 2.36% 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 Leerink Partners on March 05, 2025 offering a Market perform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $2 and $1 to it. Coverage by H.C. Wainwright stated Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (LXRX) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on June 17, 2024, suggesting a price target of $10 for the stock. On April 30, 2024, Leerink Partners Initiated their recommendations, while on March 07, 2023, Jefferies Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $3. Stock get an Overweight rating from Piper Sandler on August 12, 2022.
