$2.65M in average volume shows that Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) is heading in the right direction

On Monday, Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) was -6.72% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $1.34. A 52-week range for PLRX has been $1.24 – $16.52.

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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -52.88% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 23.99%. With a float of $52.99 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $60.86 million.

The firm has a total of 171 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 0.0%, operating margin of 0.0%, and the pretax margin is 0.0%.

Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX) Insider Activity

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 13.46%, while institutional ownership is 100.15%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.62 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 23.99% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 16.00% during the next five years compared to -78.30% 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 10.91.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -3.47, a number that is poised to hit -0.77 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -2.43 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Pliant Therapeutics Inc (PLRX)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Pliant Therapeutics Inc, PLRX], we can find that recorded value of 1.68 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 2.57 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 17.48%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.24.

During the past 100 days, Pliant Therapeutics Inc’s (PLRX) raw stochastic average was set at 0.27%, which indicates a significant decrease from 8.16% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 61.18% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 228.75% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $3.8100, while its 200-day Moving Average is $10.6072. Now, the first resistance to watch is $1.3367. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $1.4233. The third major resistance level sits at $1.4867. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $1.1867, it is likely to go to the next support level at $1.1233. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $1.0367.

Pliant Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: PLRX) Key Stats

There are 61,236K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 76.55 million. As of now, sales total 0 K while income totals -210,300 K. Its latest quarter income was 0 K while its last quarter net income were -49,730 K.