Does AbCellera Biologics Inc (ABCL) offer a good opportunity for investors?

With 4.58 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.39 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $3.43 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $3.15. The 52-week range on ABCL shows that it touched its highest point at $6.05 and its lowest point at $2.34 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $12.29. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.40.

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 ABCL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 10.70%, but this was up by 14.14% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 32.40% while six-month performance rose 20.36%. The stock lost -44.28% in the past year, while it has gained 12.97% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for ABCL yields -0.60 with Next year EPS estimates of -0.57. For the next quarter, that number is -0.13. This implies an EPS growth rate of -15.13% for this year and 3.35% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 295.16 million ABCL shares are outstanding with a float of 221.93 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 15.89 million, which was 538.0 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Dr. Carl L.G. Hansen Ph.D. as the firm’s CEO, President & Chairperson, Mr. Andrew Booth M.B.A. serves as its Chief Financial Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.39646998 of ABCL’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, ABCL reported revenue of $6507000.0 and operating income of -$90172000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$51877000.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.17.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ABCL since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 ABCL analysts setting a high price target of 28.0 and a low target of 5.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 12.28571. Based on these targets, ABCL could surge 745.92% to reach the target high and rise by 51.06% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 271.17% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.53738 being high and -$0.60704 being low. For ABCL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.58714.