BlackRock Fund Advisors has recently announced that it has increased stake in Coherus BioSciences Inc. (NASDAQ:CHRS) by 6.86%. After grabbing 11.86 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 0.76 million shares of the Healthcare Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 15.24% having worth around $80.27 million. Moreover, SSgA Funds Management, Inc. increased its share by 1.68 million to have a control over 6.79 million shares. And AllianceBernstein LP raised its holdings to 0.11 million shares by acquiring 6.22 million shares or 7.99% of the stake.
Coherus BioSciences Inc. (CHRS) concluded trading on 03/15/23 at a closing price of $6.39, with 2.12 million shares of worth about $13.57 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -33.99% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 0.63%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 77.96M shares, out of which, 71.61M shares are available for trading.
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iShares Core S&P Small Cap ETF, SPDR S&P Biotech ETF, and JPMorgan Small Cap Growth Fund are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Coherus BioSciences Inc. iShares Core S&P Small Cap ETF is currently holding 4.88 million shares of worth totaling $33.04 million. The company recently came buying 11856.0 shares which brought its stake up to 6.28% of the company’s outstanding shares. SPDR S&P Biotech ETF sold 35130.0 shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares shrunk to 5.08%, leaving 3.95 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $26.73 million. JPMorgan Small Cap Growth Fund, after buying 2.41 million shares, have now control over 3.10% of the stake in the company. It holds 18889.0 shares of worth $16.3 million.
Coherus BioSciences Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRS) started trading at $6.34, below -$0.01 from concluding price of the previous day. However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 6.49, or with a gain of 0.63%. Stock saw a price change of -7.39% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -20.42%. Year-to-date (YTD), CHRS shares are showing a performance of -19.32% which decreased to -47.01% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $5.58 but also hit the highest price of $14.11 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Coherus BioSciences Inc. shares is 1.30 million. The stock is currently trading -8.94% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -21.68% for SMA50 and it goes to -24.94% lower than SMA200.
BlackRock Fund Advisors acquired 11.86 million shares of Coherus BioSciences Inc. having value of about $80.27 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by BlackRock Fund Advisors revealed that the firm now holds 0.76 million shares in the company valued at close to $4863499.29, or have control over 6.86% stake in the company. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 44.44% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 58.02% and 28.19% of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $523.02M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.95. It has posted earnings per share of -$3.76 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 2.50. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CHRS, volatility over the week remained 9.39% while standing at 6.97% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Coherus BioSciences Inc. (CHRS) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -$0.84 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -$0.48 and it is -$1.51 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -$1.52 which is -$0.62 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -$0.46 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.20% while it is estimated to increase by 135.30% in next year.
Analysts at 7 brokerage firms have issued recommendations for the Coherus BioSciences Inc. (CHRS)’s stock and average of those rates the stock at a “Moderate Buy” and assign it a score of 2.40. Out of those 7 Wall Street analysts, 3 recommended a “Buy” rating, while 3 were in favor recommending the stock as a “Hold” and 0 analyst recommended the stock as “Sell”.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by UBS on June 14, 2022 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $7 to it. Coverage by JP Morgan stated Coherus BioSciences Inc. (CHRS) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on March 07, 2022, suggesting a price target of $15 for the stock. On July 16, 2020, BofA Securities Initiated their recommendations, while on April 17, 2020, SunTrust Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $26. Stock get a Buy rating from Mizuho on August 13, 2019.
