NASDAQ:ENTA - Enanta Pharmaceuticals Stock Price, Forecast & News

Enanta Pharmaceuticals trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ENTA."

Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:ENTA) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 21st. The biotechnology company reported $0.44 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.12. The biotechnology company earned $51.30 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $55.95 million. Enanta Pharmaceuticals had a net margin of 22.60% and a return on equity of 10.46%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 23.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.30 EPS. View Enanta Pharmaceuticals' Earnings History.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Enanta Pharmaceuticals' shares. Their forecasts range from $57.00 to $130.00. On average, they anticipate Enanta Pharmaceuticals' stock price to reach $101.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 74.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Enanta Pharmaceuticals in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

News stories about ENTA stock have trended extremely negative on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Enanta Pharmaceuticals earned a daily sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the biotechnology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,440,000 shares, an increase of 7.0% from the November 28th total of 2,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 197,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 12.3 days. Currently, 14.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Enanta Pharmaceuticals' Current Options Chain.

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Enanta Pharmaceuticals' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.03%) and Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.03%). Company insiders that own Enanta Pharmaceuticals stock include Bruce L A Carter, George Golumbeski, Jay R Luly, Nathalie Adda, Nathaniel S Gardiner, Paul J Mellett, Tim Ocain and Yat Sun Or. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

ENTA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Enanta Pharmaceuticals company stock in the last year include Bruce L A Carter, George Golumbeski, Nathaniel S Gardiner, Paul J Mellett and Yat Sun Or. View Insider Buying and Selling for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

ENTA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

Shares of ENTA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ENTA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $57.94.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals has a market capitalization of $1.14 billion and generates $205.20 million in revenue each year. The biotechnology company earns $46.38 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.21 on an earnings per share basis. Enanta Pharmaceuticals employs 113 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Enanta Pharmaceuticals.

The official website for Enanta Pharmaceuticals is http://www.enanta.com/.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals' mailing address is 500 ARSENAL STREET, WATERTOWN MA, 02472. The biotechnology company can be reached via phone at 617-607-0800 or via email at [email protected]