A better buy-in window may exist right now for Rigel Pharmaceuticals (RIGL)

With 0.56 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.23 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $16.86 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $15.62. The 52-week range on RIGL shows that it touched its highest point at $29.82 and its lowest point at $7.48 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $31.33. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.

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 RIGL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.63%, but this was down by -40.93% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 1.79% while six-month performance rose 95.84%. The stock gained 5.58% in the past year, while it has gained 13.59% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RIGL yields 0.22 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.98. For the next quarter, that number is 0.30. This implies an EPS growth rate of 120.53% for this year and 240.01% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 17.61 million RIGL shares are outstanding with a float of 17.27 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 0.64 million, which was 361.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Raul R. Rodriguez as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Dean L. Schorno CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.68011004 of RIGL’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, RIGL reported revenue of $55307000.0 and operating income of $14056000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $15092000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.7.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for RIGL since 5 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 RIGL analysts setting a high price target of 57.0 and a low target of 14.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 31.33333. Based on these targets, RIGL could surge 246.08% to reach the target high and fall by -15.0% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 90.24% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.40571 being high and $0.15214 being low. For RIGL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.28738. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.18 and the low estimate is $0.18. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.18.