Merus N.V (NASDAQ:MRUS) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -1.82% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $43.21.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $44.01, moving within a range at $42.64 and $44.56. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.948. Turning to its 52-week performance, $61.61 and $33.19 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MRUS moved 0.00% over the past month.
Merus N.V’s market cap currently stands at around $2.99 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-06.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that MRUS is a 50% 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.
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 MRUS 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.
MRUS’s current price about 1.28% and 0.08% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 52.46, while 7-day volatility ratio is 6.13% and 6.16% in the 30-day chart. Further, Merus N.V (MRUS) has a beta value of 0.93, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.65. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $95, forecast between a low of $95 and high of $95. Looking at the price targets, the low is -119.86% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -119.86%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -119.86% jump to $95 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Merus N.V (NASDAQ:MRUS), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.99 over the past 10 days and 810.47K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 69.18 million shares.
The 10.96% of Merus N.V’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 96.17% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 5.9 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 6.63. The data shows that as of 2025-04-30 short interest in Merus N.V (MRUS) stood at 855.9999999999999 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 7.42 million registered in 2025-03-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 2.76% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MRUS stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
