Personalis Inc (NASDAQ:PSNL) price on Friday, March 21, fall -1.39% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $3.56.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $3.61, moving within a range at $3.5207 and $3.65. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.732. Turning to its 52-week performance, $7.20 and $1.13 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, PSNL moved -34.44% over the past month.
Personalis Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $314.22 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-26.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 17.41M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 17M and 17.99M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -10.81% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 82.7M, representing a -2.27% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that PSNL is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
13 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 7 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 6 recommend PSNL as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
PSNL’s current price about -10.06% and -25.28% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 38.18, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.52% and 10.11% in the 30-day chart. Further, Personalis Inc (PSNL) has a beta value of 1.89, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.40. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $7.5, forecast between a low of $4 and high of $13. Looking at the price targets, the low is -12.36% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -265.17%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -110.67% jump to $7.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Personalis Inc (NASDAQ:PSNL), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.87 over the past 10 days and 1.13 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 85.17 million shares.
The 50.25% of Personalis Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 32.97% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.78 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 3.47. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Personalis Inc (PSNL) stood at 592.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 3.53 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -38.41% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the PSNL stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
