Cronos Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CRON) price is hovering higher on Tuesday, September 19, jumping 2.66% above its previous close.
A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $2.25, with intraday deals fluctuating between $2.25 and $2.405. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $3.62 and 52-week low of $1.64. The stock added 24.18% on its value in the past month.
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Cronos Group Inc., which has a market valuation of $1.24 billion. Analysts tracking CRON have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.02 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$0.12 for the year 2023 and up to -$0.07 for 2024. In this case, analysts estimate an annual EPS growth of 73.30% for the year and 41.70% for the next year.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $19.99 million, with the likely lows of $19 million and highs of $20.6 million. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely fall by -19.10% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $81.25 million for the company’s annual revenue in 2023. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow -11.60% below that which the company brought in 2023.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give CRON a short term outlook of 50% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 50% Buy.
Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 10 analysts have assigned CRON a recommendation rating as follows: 5 rate it as a Hold; 3 advise Buy while 1 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 1 analyst(s) have tagged the Cronos Group Inc. (CRON) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Overweight, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
The overview shows that CRON’s price is at present 13.81% off the SMA20 and 19.95% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 60.24, with weekly volatility standing at 10.19%. The indicator jumps to 8.01% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Cronos Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CRON)’s beta value is holding at 1.40, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.16. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $1.57-$3.70 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $2.44. Based on this estimate, we see that today’s price at last check is roughly 32.03% off the estimated low and -60.17% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price rise to $2.23, which is the median consensus price, and at that level CRON would be 3.46% from recent price.
Turning out attention to how the Cronos Group Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: CRON’s stock is 2.66% on the day and -24.27% in the past 12 months. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has stumbled -0.66% in today’s early trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial also seeing a negative session so far with -0.70%.
An analysis of the Cronos Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CRON) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 2.60 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 5.36 million.
Current records show that the company has 380.96M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 46.48% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 11.30%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Aug 30, 2023, stood at 10.33 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 4.92. From this we can glean that short interest is 2.71% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in August fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 10.37 million. But the -9.06% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
