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Avacta Group (LON:AVCT) Stock Price Down 14.6% - Here's Why

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Key Points

  • Avacta shares fell 14.6% to GBX 67.50 on Wednesday (intraday low GBX 66.40) as volume surged to ~4.51 million shares, roughly double the average daily volume.
  • Peel Hunt reiterated a Buy rating with a GBX 99 price target, and the MarketBeat consensus remains a Buy with an average target of GBX 99.
  • The company is loss-making with GBX (4.46) EPS last quarter, a negative return on equity (−74%) and negative net margin (−114%), a market cap of about £305 million and a trailing PE of −4.01.
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Avacta Group Plc (LON:AVCT - Get Free Report)'s share price dropped 14.6% during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as low as GBX 66.40 and last traded at GBX 67.50. Approximately 4,507,580 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 100% from the average daily volume of 2,250,242 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 79.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Peel Hunt restated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 99 price objective on shares of Avacta Group in a research report on Monday, October 13th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of GBX 99.

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Avacta Group Price Performance

The company has a market capitalization of £304.87 million, a PE ratio of -4.01 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 52.53, a quick ratio of 4.96 and a current ratio of 1.29. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 73.83 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 54.95.

Avacta Group (LON:AVCT - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, September 30th. The biotechnology company reported GBX (4.46) EPS for the quarter. Avacta Group had a negative return on equity of 74.00% and a negative net margin of 114.45%. Equities analysts forecast that Avacta Group Plc will post -9.9011833 earnings per share for the current year.

Avacta Group Company Profile

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Avacta Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company challenging current drug delivery methods to expand the utility of highly potent cancer therapeutics. The Company benefits from a world class research and development facility, team of exceptionally talented scientists and a highly experienced management team with members located in both the London headquarters and the US. Our proprietary pre|CISION® platform masks toxic warheads by binding them to a short, engineered peptide that is cleavable only by the tumor-specific protease, fibroblast activation protein (FAP).

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