As on May 25, 2023, Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS) started slowly as it slid -3.45% to $1.96. During the day, the stock rose to $2.085 and sunk to $1.94 before settling in for the price of $2.03 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, CERS posted a 52-week range of $1.76-$5.95.
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The Healthcare Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 29.70%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 15.40%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 23.70%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $178.27 million, simultaneously with a float of $171.72 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $336.94 million. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $2.48, while the 200-day Moving Average is $3.35.
While finding the extent of efficiency of the company that is accounted for 309 employees. It has generated 524,427 per worker during the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, its income per employee was -138,443. The stock had 5.44 Receivables turnover and 0.71 Total Asset turnover. For the Profitability, stocks gross margin was +52.20, operating margin was -37.24 and Pretax Margin of -26.13.
Cerus Corporation (CERS) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Medical Devices industry. Cerus Corporation’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.30%, in contrast to 81.20% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on May 24, this organization’s Director bought 9,850 shares at the rate of 2.03, making the entire transaction reach 19,981 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 83,420. Preceding that transaction, on May 23, Company’s Director bought 5,000 for 2.00, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 10,000. This particular insider is now the holder of 82,133 in total.
Cerus Corporation (CERS) Earnings and Revenue Records
If we go through the results of last quarter, which was made public on 3/30/2023, the company posted -$0.09 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, coming under the agreed prediction (set at -$0.07) by -$0.02. This company achieved a net margin of -26.40 while generating a return on equity of -56.20. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.04 per share during the current fiscal year.
Cerus Corporation’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 23.70% and is forecasted to reach -0.14 in the upcoming year.
Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Cerus Corporation (CERS). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.60. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.15. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.83.
In the same vein, CERS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -0.26, a figure that is expected to reach -0.06 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be -0.14 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Cerus Corporation (CERS)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Cerus Corporation, CERS], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.61 million was better the volume of 1.48 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 52.99% While, its Average True Range was 0.16.
Raw Stochastic average of Cerus Corporation (CERS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 8.73%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 32.00% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 80.35% that was higher than 75.07% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.