Allogene Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:ALLO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.98M but it saw 1384117 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 808.70M USD, stock’s current market price of $5.51 came falling about -2.65 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.66. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $17.49 and as low as $5.41. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.645 while lowest mark touched by it was $5.36.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Allogene Therapeutics Inc. (ALLO) gives us an average price of $6.16, while its current price level is -68.50% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 1.94% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $6.71 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $10.08. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.08% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 6.18%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 29.30 which implies that the stock is in oversold territory.
Allogene Therapeutics Inc. (ALLO)’s stock is currently under the radar of 18 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $6.00 and $35.00 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $6.00 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $35.00. Average price target assigned by them is $17.40 which highlights an upside potential of 68.33% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $15.00 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 63.27% of value to its current levels.
Data by FactSet Research shows that 18 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 0 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 1 are advising it as an Overweight. 13 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 3 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Overweight for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Strong Buy.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the JP Morgan which upgraded the stock as “Overweight” in its note to investors issued on January 24, 2023, recommending a price target of between $20 and $11 for it. Robert W. Baird upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Neutral” on January 06, 2023 while assigning a price target of $12. BofA Securities issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $24 and $9.
Over the week, ALLO’s stock price is moving -4.84% down while it is -22.39% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -12.40% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -29.36%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 9/29/2022, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.58 beat the consensus estimate of -$0.64 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 05/10/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -$0.7 while estimate for next year EPS is -$2.37. For ALLO, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of -25.40% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is -15.60%. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $60k for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Allogene Therapeutics Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 144.16M with 29.79% of that held by the insiders while 78.33% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on equity (ROE) at -43.40%. Stock’s beta reads 0.81. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.19 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4043.51. Its return on asset (ROA) is -36.80% on average.
A filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that SPDR S&P Biotech ETF came shrinking its share ownership by -0.88% in the Allogene Therapeutics Inc. (ALLO) decreasing its stake to 4.41% with control over 56610.0 shares in the company. In the most recent quarter, Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund came rising its stake by 1.11% in the company and now holds 2.88 million or 1.99% of the company’s stake having worth of about 18.26 million.
