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Prime Medicine (NASDAQ:PRME) Stock Price Up 11.6% - Should You Buy?

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Key Points

  • Prime Medicine stock price surged by 11.6% to $6.55, with trading volume dropping 45% from its average.
  • Equities analysts have expressed a negative outlook, with Weiss Ratings and Wall Street Zen both assigning a Sell rating to the stock.
  • The company's market cap stands at approximately $901.62 million, with a P/E ratio of -4.29, indicating potential financial concerns.
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Prime Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRME - Get Free Report)'s share price rose 11.6% on Wednesday . The company traded as high as $6.55 and last traded at $6.55. Approximately 1,478,068 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 45% from the average daily volume of 2,679,189 shares. The stock had previously closed at $5.87.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on PRME shares. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a "sell (e+)" rating on shares of Prime Medicine in a report on Wednesday. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Prime Medicine from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Tuesday, September 2nd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Sell rating, According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of "Sell".

Read Our Latest Analysis on PRME

Prime Medicine Trading Up 14.1%

The stock has a market cap of $901.62 million, a P/E ratio of -4.29 and a beta of 2.65.

About Prime Medicine

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We are a biotechnology company committed to delivering a new class of differentiated one-time curative genetic therapies, Prime Editors, to address the widest spectrum of diseases by deploying our Prime Editing technology, which we believe is a versatile, precise, efficient and broad gene editing technology.

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