Vericel (VCEL) Stock Price, News & Analysis

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Vericel in the last twelve months. There are currently 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" VCEL shares.
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6 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Vericel's stock. Their VCEL share price targets range from $39.00 to $54.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $46.40 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.3% from the stock's current price.
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Vericel's stock was trading at $35.61 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, VCEL stock has increased by 21.4% and is now trading at $43.23.
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Vericel saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,390,000 shares, an increase of 85.2% from the March 15th total of 2,370,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 536,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 8.2 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 8th 2024.
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Vericel Co. (NASDAQ:VCEL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 29th. The biotechnology company reported $0.26 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.08. The biotechnology company earned $65 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $64.28 million. Vericel had a negative net margin of 1.61% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.55%. Vericel's revenue was up 23.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.12 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Vericel (NASDAQ:VCEL) stock in their portfolio include Invesco Biotechnology & Genome ETF (PBE), Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH), WisdomTree BioRevolution Fund (WDNA), ALPS Medical Breakthroughs ETF (SBIO), Invesco Dorsey Wright Healthcare Momentum ETF (PTH), SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI), Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG) and Syntax Stratified SmallCap ETF (SSLY).

Vericel updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $237.0 million-$241.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $240.8 million.

6 employees have rated Vericel Chief Executive Officer Nick Colangelo on Glassdoor.com. Nick Colangelo has an approval rating of 49% among the company's employees. This puts Nick Colangelo in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Vericel investors own include Exelixis (EXEL), Novavax (NVAX), Hello Group (MOMO), Dynavax Technologies (DVAX), Synergy Pharmaceuticals (SGYP), Sorrento Therapeutics (SRNE), TG Therapeutics (TGTX), Verastem (VSTM), Amarin (AMRN) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Vericel's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Congress Asset Management Co. MA (1.73%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.82%), Congress Wealth Management LLC DE (0.22%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.06%) and Mesirow Financial Investment Management Inc. (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Dominick Colangelo, Jonathan Mark Hopper, Jonathan Siegal, Michael Halpin, Paul K Wotton, Robert L Md Zerbe, Sean C Flynn and Steven C Gilman.
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Shares of VCEL stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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