The trading price of Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:NBIX) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $126.04, 8.48% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $124.5784 and $131.255. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 38.08, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.364. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $157.98 and a 52-week low of $103.63. Over the past month, the stock has gained 10.42% in value.
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., whose market valuation is $12.73 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2024-Oct-30. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest NBIX has a 50% Sell on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned NBIX a recommendation rating is 14. Out of them, 1 rate it a Hold, while 12 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NBIX) as Underweight, while 1 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 0.93, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that NBIX’s price is currently 8.83% off the SMA20 and 3.71% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 68.94, and weekly volatility stands at 2.22%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 1.90%. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:NBIX)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.36, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 3.38. With analysts defining $100-$193 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $152.5 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 20.66% off the estimated low and -53.13% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if NBIX’s share price rises to $152.5, which is the median consensus price. At that level, NBIX’s share price would be -20.99% below current price.
To see how Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: NBIX stock’s performance was 8.48% at last check in today’s session, and 17.65% in the past year. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. has a P/E ratio of 38.08.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:NBIX) indicates that the 3-month average is 940.95K. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 0.79.
Currently, records show that 100.98 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 2.17% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 93.51%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-10-15, stood at 2.62 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.19 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 303.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in October were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 2.23 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -4.34% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
