Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IONS) saw an uptrend of 1.27% in the recent trading with $34.19 being its most recent. The current price level -29.97% lower than the highest price of $48.82 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 8.68% higher than the lowest price of $31.46 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on IONS appeared in Morningstar Research under the title “Analyst Report: Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.” on Mar-09-23.
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Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -11.81% below one month high and is +4.59% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IONS)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $38.19 while that of 5-day is reading $34.05.
Daily rise and fall of price influence many of the traders, and in order to overcome the fluctuating effect of that and to watch the stock closely, traders focus more on stock’s 200-day moving average. At various points in trading activity, investors are more likely to be making use of that measure as a strong indicator in figuring out their support and resistance levels, and IONS’s SMA-200 as of now is $40.44.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 23 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.70 for the stock.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. Earnings – What Happened With IONS
Coming around sales and income figures on IONS Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. During the reported three-month period, company’s sales were $152.0 billion.
IONS – Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. Stock Earnings Estimates
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 142.05 million. IONS does have institutional investors; and they hold 90.70% of the stock.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. – Insider Activity and Holdings
Moreover, the latest SEC filings also revealed that stock came across 19 new insider purchases involving 259,993 shares. On the other hand, IONS declared 118,745 shares have been sold in 21 insider transactions over the past three months.
Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 23 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.70 for the stock.
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, current ratio recorded by Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. was 7.07 while posting a debt to equity ratio of 2.08.
Technical Analysis of Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:IONS) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (IONS), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 865,885 shares and 100% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Sell. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Sell with its 50-day average volume of 936,162 shares. And to end, IONS’s 100-day average volume is 979,346 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Sell for the stock.
