89bio Inc (NASDAQ: ETNB) is 29.28% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $4.16 and a high of $11.84 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 ETNB stock was last observed hovering at around $9.84 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.27%.
Currently trading at $10.11, the stock is 17.10% and 32.78% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.09 million and changing 2.74% at the moment leaves the stock 22.56% off its SMA200. ETNB registered 26.06% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of 13.60%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $7.5867 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $8.2389.
The stock witnessed a 24.35% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 13.85%, and is 6.53% 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 2.63% over the week and 5.53% over the month.
89bio Inc (ETNB) has around 93 employees, a market worth around $1.48B and $0.00M in sales. Distance from 52-week low is 143.03% and -14.61% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-60.20%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 40.30% this year.
89bio Inc (ETNB) Top Institutional Holders
258.0 institutions hold shares in 89bio Inc (ETNB), with institutional investors hold 109.58% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 145.98M, and float is at 141.29M with Short Float at 10.95%. Institutions hold 108.89% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. with over 14.18 million shares valued at $113.54 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.1994% of the ETNB Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC with 13.28 million shares valued at $106.32 million to account for 13.2986 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are SUVRETTA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC which holds 8.03 million shares representing 8.0454% and valued at over $64.34 million, while BVF INC/IL holds 7.5813 of the shares totaling 7.57 million with a market value of $60.62 million.
89bio Inc (ETNB) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Le-Nguyen Quoc. SEC filings show that Le-Nguyen Quoc sold 15,329 shares of the company’s common stock on Apr 15 ’25 at a price of $5.95 per share for a total of $91208.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.33 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Jan 30 ’25, RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. (Director) acquired 5,714,285 shares at an average price of $8.75 for $50.0 million. The insider now directly holds 19,554,319 shares of 89bio Inc (ETNB).
