Verona Pharma Plc ADR (NASDAQ:VRNA) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -0.86% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $74.09.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $74.73. Turning to its 52-week performance, $75.47 and $11.39 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VRNA moved 19.48% over the past month.
Verona Pharma Plc ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $6.31 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in June.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VRNA is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
7 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 7 recommend VRNA 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 Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
VRNA’s current price about 6.22% and 14.54% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 64.28, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.38% and 5.23% in the 30-day chart. Further, Verona Pharma Plc ADR (VRNA) has a beta value of 0.18, and an average true range (ATR) of 3.53. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $77.5, forecast between a low of $74 and high of $83. Looking at the price targets, the low is 0.12% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -12.03%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -4.6% jump to $77.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Verona Pharma Plc ADR (NASDAQ:VRNA), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.46 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 85.13 million shares.
The 9.90% of Verona Pharma Plc ADR’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 84.96% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 59.54% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VRNA stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
