LENZ Therapeutics Inc (LENZ) saw an uptrend of 3.92% in the recent trading with $30.48 being its most recent. The current price level -21.71% lower than the highest price of $38.93 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 84.34% higher than the lowest price of $16.53 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on LENZ appeared in (GlobeNewswire) under the title “LENZ Therapeutics Announces US FDA Approval of VIZZ for the Treatment of Presbyopia” on.
Looking into the simple moving average, LENZ Therapeutics Inc (LENZ)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $30.97 while that of 5-day is reading $30.06.
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 LENZ’s SMA-200 as of now is $28.28.
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 Strong Buy by 2 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 1.12 for the stock.
LENZ Therapeutics Inc Earnings – What Happened With LENZ
Coming around sales and income figures on LENZ 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.
LENZ Therapeutics Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
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 28.50 million. LENZ does have institutional investors; and they hold 80.53% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. was the top most holder in LENZ Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:LENZ) with an ownership of 4.18 million shares of the company or 16.318 of the stake worth $72.25 million. The filing also reveals ALPHA WAVE GLOBAL, LP as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 14.1055 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $62.46 million for having 3.61 million shares in hand.
ECOR1 CAPITAL, LLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 4.7631 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 166.0 institutions which have possession in LENZ’s shares.
Key Metrics forLENZ
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, LENZ Therapeutics Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.01.
