Let’s look at the key reasons that are pushing Verastem Inc (VSTM) to new highs

Verastem Inc (NASDAQ: VSTM) on Tuesday, plunged -5.85% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $5.64. Within the past 52 weeks, VSTM’s price has moved between $2.10 and $9.10.

Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -10.54% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 24.59%. With a float of $48.88 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $51.49 million.

The firm has a total of 78 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 25.0%, operating margin of -546129.17%, and the pretax margin is -619550.0%.

Verastem Inc (VSTM) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Observing investor behavior towards Biotechnology industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Verastem Inc is 11.04%, while institutional ownership is 69.35%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 20 ’25, was worth 90,593. In this transaction Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 11,143 shares at a rate of $8.13, taking the stock ownership to the 114,055 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 20 ’25, when Company’s President and CEO sold 58,677 for $8.13, making the entire transaction worth $477,044. This insider now owns 461,982 shares in total.

Verastem Inc (VSTM) Recent Fiscal highlights

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.68 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 24.59% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 31.49% during the next five years compared to 31.36% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Verastem Inc (NASDAQ: VSTM) Trading Performance Indicators

Verastem Inc (VSTM) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 3.50 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 29.18.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -3.19, a number that is poised to hit -0.65 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -1.89 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Verastem Inc (VSTM)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Verastem Inc, VSTM], we can find that recorded value of 1.44 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.4 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 6.31%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.56.

During the past 100 days, Verastem Inc’s (VSTM) raw stochastic average was set at 20.38%, which indicates a significant increase from 1.45% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 98.13% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 90.15% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $6.60, while its 200-day Moving Average is $5.15. Now, the first resistance to watch is $5.58. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $5.86. The third major resistance level sits at $6.01. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $5.15, it is likely to go to the next support level at $5.00. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $4.72.

Verastem Inc (NASDAQ: VSTM) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 291.78 million based on 54,949K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 10,000 K and income totals -130,640 K. The company made 0 K in profit during its latest quarter, and -52,100 K in sales during its previous quarter.