With 0.93 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.7 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $55.87 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $54.96. The 52-week range on HALO shows that it touched its highest point at $65.53 and its lowest point at $33.15 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $64.75. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.25.
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 HALO was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.05%, but this was up by 17.56% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 7.46% while six-month performance rose 0.42%. The stock gained 63.57% in the past year, while it has gained 16.36% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HALO yields 3.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.05. For the next quarter, that number is 1.16. This implies an EPS growth rate of 49.04% for this year and 22.37% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 127.18 million HALO shares are outstanding with a float of 125.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 9.5 million, which was 747.0000000000001 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Dr. Helen I. Torley M.B. Ch. B., M.R.C.P. as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Dr. Michael J. LaBarre Ph.D. serves as its Senior VP & CTO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.01557 of HALO’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, HALO reported revenue of $290084000.0 and operating income of $163197000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $183557000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.05.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HALO since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 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 HALO analysts setting a high price target of 77.0 and a low target of 53.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 64.75. Based on these targets, HALO could surge 38.41% to reach the target high and fall by -4.73% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 16.39% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.18831 being high and $4.07835 being low. For HALO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.12833. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.08 and the low estimate is $0.85. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.97.
