Market Analysts see Heron Therapeutics Inc [HRTX] gaining to $7. Time to buy?

Heron Therapeutics Inc [NASDAQ: HRTX] closed the trading session at $1.71.

The stocks have a year to date performance of 11.76 percent and weekly performance of 1.18 percent. The stock has been moved at -12.31 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed -5.52 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed 61.32 percent over the most recent 3-months.

If compared to the average trading volume of 2.93M shares, HRTX reached to a volume of 4671462 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.

Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Heron Therapeutics Inc [HRTX]:

Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for HRTX shares is $6.67 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on HRTX stock is a recommendation set at 1.00. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.

Rodman & Renshaw have made an estimate for Heron Therapeutics Inc shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on June 13, 2024. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, CapitalOne raised their target price to Overweight. The new note on the price target was released on April 23, 2024, representing the official price target for Heron Therapeutics Inc stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise from $4 to $5, while Needham kept a Buy rating on HRTX stock.

The Average True Range (ATR) for Heron Therapeutics Inc is set at 0.11, with the Price to Sales ratio for HRTX stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 1.89.

HRTX stock trade performance evaluation

Heron Therapeutics Inc [HRTX] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 1.18. With this latest performance, HRTX shares dropped by -5.52% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -12.31% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -34.23% in the past year of trading.

Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for HRTX stock in for the last two-week period is set at 50.82, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 49.66, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 51.33 for Heron Therapeutics Inc [HRTX]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 1.6614, while it was recorded at 1.7220 for the last single week of trading, and 2.1860 for the last 200 days.

Heron Therapeutics Inc [HRTX]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals

Heron Therapeutics Inc’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 1.74 and a Current Ratio set at 2.28.

Heron Therapeutics Inc [HRTX]: Institutional Ownership

The top three institutional holders of HRTX stocks are: RUBRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP with ownership of 26.71 million shares, which is approximately 17.5395%. VANGUARD GROUP INC, holding 8.62 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$30.16 million in HRTX stocks shares; and VANGUARD GROUP INC, currently with $$29.14 million in HRTX stock with ownership which is approximately 5.5062%.