Cerus Corp (NASDAQ:CERS) shares, rose in value on Friday, July 11, with the stock price down by -6.45% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $1.45.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $1.55, falling within a range of $1.45 and $1.53. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.545. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $2.54, and the low was $1.12. On the whole, CERS has fluctuated by 0.69% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Cerus Corp currently standing at about $277.18 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-01.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CERS’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% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of CERS currently trading nearly 2.51% and 6.39% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 52.25, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.58% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.86%. Furthermore, Cerus Corp (CERS)’s beta value is 1.55.
A comparison of Cerus Corp (CERS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CERS showed an intraday change of -6.45% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -5.84%%.
Data on historical trading for Cerus Corp (NASDAQ:CERS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.32 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.20 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 191.11 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 6.58% of Cerus Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 75.57% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 6.72 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 4.81. According to the data, the short interest in Cerus Corp (CERS) stood at 460.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 8.84 million. The stock has fallen by -26.77% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CERS stock heading into the next quarter.
