Taking on analysts’ expectations and winning: Sol-Gel Technologies Ltd (SLGL)

With 1.14 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.39 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $1.22 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $0.872. The 52-week range on SLGL shows that it touched its highest point at $1.65 and its lowest point at $0.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $4.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.46.

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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 SLGL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 176.71%, but this was up by 119.82% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 71.83% while six-month performance rose 40.25%. The stock lost -6.15% in the past year, while it has gained 10.41% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SLGL yields -0.34 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.40. For the next quarter, that number is -0.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 72.28% for this year and -42.86% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 27.86 million SLGL shares are outstanding with a float of 7.23 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 37162.0, which was 13.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Dr. Alon Seri-Levy as the firm’s Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Dr. Itzik Yosef serves as its Chief Operating Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.19354999 of SLGL’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 2024-06-30, SLGL reported revenue of $5361000.0 and operating income of -$828000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$828000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.01.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SLGL since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 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 SLGL analysts setting a high price target of 6.0 and a low target of 4.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 5.0. Based on these targets, SLGL could surge 391.8% to reach the target high and rise by 227.87% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 309.84% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.14 being high and -$0.415 being low. For SLGL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.28.