Autolus Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ:AUTL) currently has a daily average trading volume of 620.97K but it saw 1664642 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 493.79M USD, stock’s current market price of $3.05 came falling about -1.93 while comparing to the previous closing price of $3.11. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $3.79 and as low as $1.60. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $3.345 while lowest mark touched by it was $3.00.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Autolus Therapeutics plc (AUTL) gives us an average price of $2.36, while its current price level is -19.53% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 90.62% 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 $2.05 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $2.35. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 11.05% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 10.89%. 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 71.50 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.
Autolus Therapeutics plc (AUTL)’s stock is currently under the radar of 11 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $2.70 and $12.00 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 $2.70 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $12.00. Average price target assigned by them is $6.63 which highlights an upside potential of 54.0% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $6.00 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 49.17% of value to its current levels.
Data by FactSet Research shows that 11 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 0 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 0 are advising it as an Overweight. 8 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 Moderate Buy.
Over the week, AUTL’s stock price is moving 10.91% up while it is 85.98% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 60.53% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 17.31%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 3/30/2023, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -$0.23 beat the consensus estimate of -$0.27 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 08/10/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -$0.22 while estimate for next year EPS is -$0.89. For AUTL, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 43.30% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 4.50%. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $410k as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $1.73 million and seeing the company making $16.54 million in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $140k for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Autolus Therapeutics plc’s total number of outstanding shares is 173.07M with 8.45% of that held by the insiders while 76.89% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -48.10%. Stock’s beta reads 1.50. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.98 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 77.16.
A filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that iShares Biotechnology ETF came shrinking its share ownership by -0.17% in the Autolus Therapeutics plc (AUTL) decreasing its stake to 0.49% with control over 1394.0 shares in the company. In the most recent quarter, Regnan UFI – Regnan Global Equity came rising its stake by 23.36% in the company and now holds 0.51 million or 0.30% of the company’s stake having worth of about 0.93 million.
