Date: 2023-01-13 15:30:40
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Sana Biotechnology Inc. (NASDAQ:SANA) price on Thursday, January 12, rose 4.10% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.57.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $4.39, moving within a range at $4.25 and $4.59. Turning to its 52-week performance, $12.89 and $3.15 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SANA moved 3.39% over the past month.
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Sana Biotechnology Inc.’s market cap currently stands at around $895.63 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Mar 14, 2023 – Mar 20, 2023. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be -$0.53, which has seen fiscal year 2022 EPS growth forecast to increase to -$2.02 and about -$2.37 for fiscal year 2023. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 5.60% for 2023 and -17.30% for the next financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SANA is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
SANA’s current price about 21.41% and 2.79% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 59.15, while 7-day volatility ratio is 10.87% and 10.04% in the 30-day chart. Further, Sana Biotechnology Inc. (SANA) has a beta value of 0, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.38.
In the market, a comparison of Sana Biotechnology Inc. (SANA) and its peers suggest the former has performed considerably stronger. Data shows SANA’s intraday price has changed 4.10% in last session and -63.61% over the past year. Comparatively, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has moved -0.50% on the day and only 1.61% in the past 12 months. Looking at another peer, we see that Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) price has dipped -0.36% on the day. However, the stock is 36.90% off its price a year ago. Elsewhere, the overall performance for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial shows that the indexes are up 0.34% and 0.64% respectively in the last trading.
If we refocus on Sana Biotechnology Inc. (NASDAQ:SANA), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.94 million over the past 10 days and 986.80K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 189.30 million shares.
The 3.10% of Sana Biotechnology Inc.’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 91.20% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 25.27 million on Oct 13, 2022, giving us a short ratio of 23.08. The data shows that as of Oct 13, 2022 short interest in Sana Biotechnology Inc. (SANA) stood at 13.29% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 25.91 million registered in Sep 14, 2022. Current price change has pushed the stock 15.70% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SANA stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.