Twist Bioscience Corp (NASDAQ: TWST) is -2.37% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $27.41 and a high of $60.90 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The TWST stock was last observed hovering at around $46.20 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.83%.
Currently trading at $45.37, the stock is -10.23% and -7.28% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.18 million and changing -1.80% at the moment leaves the stock -2.29% off its SMA200. TWST registered 18.80% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 6.23%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $48.9926 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $46.3606.
The stock witnessed a 4.11% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -0.07%, and is -15.45% down 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 5.85% over the week and 6.86% over the month.
Twist Bioscience Corp (TWST) has around 923 employees, a market worth around $2.71B and $330.19M in sales. Profit margin for the company is -59.76%. Distance from 52-week low is 65.52% and -25.50% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-37.69%).
with sales reaching $92M over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 43.45% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 20.14% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 22.18% in year-over-year returns.
The shares outstanding are 59.58M, and float is at 56.30M with Short Float at 15.34%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is ARK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC with over 6.13 million shares valued at $302.06 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.5415 of the TWST Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is ARTISAN PARTNERS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP with 6.07 million shares valued at $299.06 million to account for 10.4371 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 5.59 million shares representing 9.6178 and valued at over $275.59 million, while BLACKROCK INC. holds 9.328 of the shares totaling 5.42 million with a market value of $267.28 million.
Twist Bioscience Corp (TWST) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by CHESS ROBERT, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that CHESS ROBERT sold 2,940 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 07 ’25 at a price of $53.13 per share for a total of $0.16 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 18173.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 03 ’25, WERNER ROBERT F. (Chief Accounting Officer) disposed off 185 shares at an average price of $49.35 for $9130.0. The insider now directly holds 52,858 shares of Twist Bioscience Corp (TWST).
