A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: Cg Oncology Inc (CGON)

With 0.26 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.6 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $28.465 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $27.71. The 52-week range on CGON shows that it touched its highest point at $50.23 and its lowest point at $25.77 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $69.50.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of CGON was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.31%, but this was down by -15.45% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -21.82% while six-month performance fell -7.27%. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CGON yields -1.28 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.83. For the next quarter, that number is -0.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of -13.56% for this year and -43.13% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 67.54 million CGON shares are outstanding with a float of 42.10 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 5.27 million, which was 779.0 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Arthur Kuan as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Ambaw Bellete M.S. serves as its President & COO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.82146 of CGON’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, CGON reported revenue of $43000.0 and operating income of -$28295000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$28274000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.3.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CGON since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CGON analysts setting a high price target of 86.0 and a low target of 55.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 68.85714. Based on these targets, CGON could surge 213.3% to reach the target high and rise by 100.36% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 150.85% from current levels.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$1.20926 being high and -$1.37504 being low. For CGON, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$1.27752. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.38 and the low estimate is -$0.38. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.38.