NovoCure Ltd (NASDAQ:NVCR) price on Friday, April 11, rose 2.61% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $16.50.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $16.08, moving within a range at $15.75 and $16.51. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.65. Turning to its 52-week performance, $34.13 and $11.70 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, NVCR moved -17.75% over the past month.
NovoCure Ltd’s market cap currently stands at around $1.81 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-26.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 147.49M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 145M and 150.3M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 6.49% 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 613.62M, representing a 1.39% jump 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 NVCR is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
5 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 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend NVCR as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 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.
NVCR’s current price about -8.30% and -17.22% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 38.66, while 7-day volatility ratio is 10.84% and 5.71% in the 30-day chart. Further, NovoCure Ltd (NVCR) has a beta value of 0.76, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.16. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $30, forecast between a low of $30 and high of $30. Looking at the price targets, the low is -81.82% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -81.82%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -81.82% jump to $30 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on NovoCure Ltd (NASDAQ:NVCR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.82 over the past 10 days and 897.51K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 108.52 million shares.
The 10.53% of NovoCure Ltd’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 86.16% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 5.4 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 4.8. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in NovoCure Ltd (NVCR) stood at 585.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5.2 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -44.63% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the NVCR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
