Geron Corp (GERN)

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Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN) – What is the Analyst Consensus On This Stock?
By Engelwood Staff — August 28, 2016
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Brokerage firms on Wall Street covering Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN) expect that the firm will trade between $6 and $10 over the next 12 months. These are the high and low price target projections based on the 3 sell-side analysts taken into consideration by Zacks research. The average target price of all analysts stands at $7.5.

Each of the analysts also offer Buy/Sell/Hold recommendations on the stock. At the time of writing, the shares have an average analyst rating of 1.5. A low number between 1 and 2 indicates a Buy or Strong Buy. A 3 represents a Hold, while a 4 or 5 represents a Sell. It’s important to note that it’s very rare for sell-side analysts to issue Sell or Strong Sell recommendations. This means that recommendations tend to be slightly inflated.

As for earnings, the Street is expecting that the firm will post earnings of $-0.06 per share for the current quarter. This is compared to the actual earnings of $-0.05 which the company most recently reported for the period ending on 2016-06-30. All eyes will be on the firm when they next report actual results on or around 2016-11-03.

Another metric we can look at to gauge the sentiment of the stock are crowd sourced ratings. Closing Bell is a website that compiles ratings from every day investors conducting their own research. As of today, Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN) has an average rating of 4.25 based on 4 active ratings. Their scale is the opposite of Zacks, where 1 represents a Strong Sell and 5 a Strong Buy.



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