Lipocine Inc (LPCN) saw downtrend of -1.15% in the recent trading with $11.13 being its most recent. The current price level -10.02% lower than the highest price of $12.37 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 341.67% higher than the lowest price of $2.52 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on LPCN appeared in (PR Newswire) under the title “Lipocine Reports Encouraging Progress Post Second Interim Safety Review in Phase 3 Trial of LPCN 1154 in Postpartum Depression (PPD)”.
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. 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 1.00 for the stock.
Lipocine Inc Earnings – What Happened With LPCN
Coming around sales and income figures on LPCN 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. Lipocine Inc (LPCN) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/31/2024, posting a surprise factor of 182.50% for net revenue.
LPCN – Lipocine Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Lipocine Inc (NASDAQ:LPCN),s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of -0.4 for stock,s EPS in the current quarter. Lipocine Inc (LPCN) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 12/31/2024, posting a surprise factor of 182.50% for net revenue. Company,s EPS for the last quarter was 0.33.
Lipocine 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 5.42 million. LPCN does have institutional investors; and they hold 18.54% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Lipocine Inc (NASDAQ:LPCN) with an ownership of 0.22 million shares of the company or 4.1441 of the stake worth $1.82 million. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 1.6705 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $0.74 million for having 89272.0 shares in hand.
UBS GROUP AG also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 1.0521 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 24.0 institutions which have possession in LPCN,s shares.
Key Metrics for LPCN
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, Lipocine Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.00.
