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Exelixis Inc (EXEL) – Don’t Believe the Hype: Check The Facts

Exelixis Inc (NASDAQ: EXEL) is 11.80% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $18.64 and a high of $27.83 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The EXEL stock was last observed hovering at around $27.60 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.78%.

Currently trading at $26.82, the stock is 2.71% and 7.87% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.71 million and changing -2.83% at the moment leaves the stock 16.85% off its SMA200. EXEL registered 25.62% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 14.27%.

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The stock witnessed a 0.86% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 24.40%, and is 0.71% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.58% over the week and 2.02% over the month.

Exelixis Inc (EXEL) has around 1310 employees, a market worth around $7.65B and $2.01B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 22.97 and Fwd P/E is 18.42. Profit margin for the company is 17.38%. Distance from 52-week low is 43.88% and -3.63% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (15.10%).

The EPS is expected to grow by 134.19% this year

582.0 institutions hold shares in Exelixis Inc (EXEL), with institutional investors hold 89.24% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 302.79M, and float is at 277.90M with Short Float at 4.33%. Institutions hold 87.59% of the Float.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 33.5 million shares valued at $752.8 million. The investor’s holdings represent 11.1393 of the EXEL Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 29.65 million shares valued at $666.33 million to account for 9.8598 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FARALLON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC which holds 27.1 million shares representing 9.0114 and valued at over $608.99 million, while RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC holds 5.0416 of the shares totaling 15.16 million with a market value of $340.71 million.

Exelixis Inc (EXEL) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Hessekiel Jeffrey, the company’s EVP, General Counsel & Sec. SEC filings show that Hessekiel Jeffrey sold 20,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Aug 26 ’24 at a price of $25.79 per share for a total of $0.52 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.63 million shares.

Exelixis Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Aug 14 ’24 that Freire Maria C (Director) sold a total of 8,250 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Aug 14 ’24 and was made at $26.56 per share for $0.22 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 91007.0 shares of the EXEL stock.

Still, SEC filings show that on Aug 12 ’24, Aftab Dana (CSO/EVP Disc & Trans Research) disposed off 20,883 shares at an average price of $27.06 for $0.57 million. The insider now directly holds 500,107 shares of Exelixis Inc (EXEL).

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