This trade activity should not be overlooked: Tempest Therapeutics Inc (TPST)

With 1.24 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.87 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $0.8122 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $0.7161. The 52-week range on TPST shows that it touched its highest point at $6.00 and its lowest point at $0.70 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.33. Beta for the stock currently stands at -2.33.

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 TPST was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -10.55%, but this was down by -8.82% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.44% while six-month performance fell -43.23%. The stock lost -80.11% in the past year, while it has lost -11.56% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TPST yields -1.50 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.64. For the next quarter, that number is -0.29. This implies an EPS growth rate of 17.17% for this year and -32.19% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -6.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 50.16%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 43.97 million TPST shares are outstanding with a float of 39.62 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 1.75 million, which was 401.99999999999994 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Stephen R. Brady J.D., LLM as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Nicholas Maestas serves as its CFO, Head of Corporate Strategy & Secretary.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.15539 of TPST’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, TPST reported revenue of $0.0 and operating income of -$13918000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$13517000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for TPST since 1 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, 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 TPST analysts setting a high price target of 16.0 and a low target of 5.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.5. Based on these targets, TPST could surge 2062.16% to reach the target high and rise by 575.68% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 1183.78% 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 -$1.22958 being high and -$1.42321 being low. For TPST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$1.34576. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.25 and the low estimate is -$0.4. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.34.