On Monday, Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) was 4.00% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $10.75. A 52-week range for PLRX has been $10.22 – $18.46.
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Annual sales at Healthcare sector company slipped by -41.09% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -32.31%. With a float of $53.50 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $60.85 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 158 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 66.96%, operating margin of -4588.47%, and the pretax margin is -4166.96%.
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Pliant Therapeutics Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Pliant Therapeutics Inc is 12.08%, while institutional ownership is 96.29%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 17 ’25, was worth 587,150. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 52,419 shares at a rate of $11.20, taking the stock ownership to the 430,517 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jan 17 ’25, when Company’s Chief Financial Officer sold 20,148 for $11.20, making the entire transaction worth $225,680. This insider now owns 262,608 shares in total.
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.98 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -32.31% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -13.88% during the next five years compared to -22.68% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 10.26.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -3.34, a number that is poised to hit -0.99 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -3.99 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX)
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) saw its 5-day average volume 0.52 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.5 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 36.81%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.68.
During the past 100 days, Pliant Therapeutics Inc’s (PLRX) raw stochastic average was set at 16.33%, which indicates a significant decrease from 35.39% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 69.81% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 62.56% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $12.89, while its 200-day Moving Average is $12.80. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $11.48 in the near term. At $11.79, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $12.35. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $10.61, it is likely to go to the next support level at $10.05. The third support level lies at $9.74 if the price breaches the second support level.
Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) Key Stats
There are 60,854K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 680.35 million. As of now, sales total 1,580 K while income totals -161,340 K. Its latest quarter income was 0 K while its last quarter net income were -57,760 K.
