Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) distance from 200-day Simple Moving Average is $15.90: Right on the Precipice

Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) open the trading on Wednesday, with great promise as it jumped 7.11% to $12.66, before settling in for the price of $11.82 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, PLRX posted a 52-week range of $11.21-$24.74.

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The company of the Healthcare sector’s yearbook sales growth during the past 5- year span was recorded -32.88%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -22.68%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -19.40%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $59.92 million, simultaneously with a float of $52.81 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $763.65 million. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $14.50, while the 200-day Moving Average is $15.90.

Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Biotechnology industry. Pliant Therapeutics Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 12.44%, in contrast to 95.59% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Jan 17 ’24, this organization’s President and CEO sold 25,721 shares at the rate of 17.23, making the entire transaction reach 443,173 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 316,382. Preceding that transaction, on Jan 17 ’24, Company’s Chief Medical Officer sold 10,295 for 17.23, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 177,383. This particular insider is now the holder of 156,920 in total.

Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) Earnings and Revenue Records

Pliant Therapeutics Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -19.40% and is forecasted to reach -3.54 in the upcoming year.

Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 17.72. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.67. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 483.32.

In the same vein, PLRX’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -2.75, a figure that is expected to reach -0.77 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be -3.54 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX)

[Pliant Therapeutics Inc, PLRX] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 54.47% While, its Average True Range was 0.65.

Raw Stochastic average of Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 17.24%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 43.15% 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 50.83% that was lower than 60.38% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.