This trade activity should not be overlooked: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (IRWD)

With 2.22 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.53 million shares. During the session, the Drug Manufacturers – Specialty & Generic company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $8.17 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $7.77. The 52-week range on IRWD shows that it touched its highest point at $15.70 and its lowest point at $7.53 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $18.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.56.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of IRWD was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.26%, but this was down by -9.28% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -41.60% while six-month performance fell -12.72%. The stock lost -24.95% in the past year, while it has lost -31.64% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for IRWD yields -6.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.80. For the next quarter, that number is 0.20. This implies an EPS growth rate of 110.57% for this year and 16.99% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 156.35 million IRWD shares are outstanding with a float of 151.60 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-04-15, short shares totaled 21.16 million, which was 1352.0001 higher than short shares on 1710460800. In addition to Mr. Thomas A. McCourt as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Sravan Kumar Emany serves as its Senior VP, Principal Financial Officer & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.0751799 of IRWD’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2023-12-31, IRWD reported revenue of $117553000.0 and operating income of $43210000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $46153000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for IRWD since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.