Castle Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:CSTL) shares, rose in value on Friday, November 22, with the stock price up by 3.22% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $29.81.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $28.88, falling within a range of $28.76 and $30.33. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.985 whereas the PE ratio was 149.12 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $35.84, and the low was $16.97. On the whole, CSTL has fluctuated by -6.26% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Castle Biosciences Inc currently standing at about $834.90 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in December.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 326.31M, with a low estimate of 75.4M and a high estimate of 84.49M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 80.58M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CSTL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of CSTL currently trading nearly -5.93% and -3.79% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 45.16, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.02% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.07%. Furthermore, Castle Biosciences Inc (CSTL)’s beta value is 0.93, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.74.
A comparison of Castle Biosciences Inc (CSTL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CSTL showed an intraday change of 3.22% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 50.18%%.
Data on historical trading for Castle Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:CSTL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.4 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 394.63K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 27.41 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 3.11% of Castle Biosciences Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 92.05% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.61 million shares as on 2024-10-31, resulting in a short ratio of 4.27. According to the data, the short interest in Castle Biosciences Inc (CSTL) stood at 591.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-10-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-09-30 reached 1.61 million. The stock has risen by 38.14% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CSTL stock heading into the next quarter.
