Oxford Nanopore Technologies (LON:ONT) Insider Acquires £150.04 in Stock

Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (LON:ONT) insider Francis Van Parys acquired 121 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, June 12th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 124 per share, for a total transaction of £150.04.

Francis Van Parys also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, May 13th, Francis Van Parys acquired 133 shares of Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 113 per share, for a total transaction of £150.29.
• On Tuesday, April 14th, Francis Van Parys acquired 136 shares of Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 110 per share, for a total transaction of £149.60.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Stock Performance

LON ONT traded up GBX 0.75 on Monday, reaching GBX 118.20. The stock had a trading volume of 2,050,347 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,096,486. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 8.96, a current ratio of 3.56 and a quick ratio of 6.01. The firm has a fifty day moving average of GBX 121.59 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 129.62. Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc has a 1-year low of GBX 104 and a 1-year high of GBX 224.80. The company has a market cap of £1.15 billion, a P/E ratio of -7.83 and a beta of 0.91.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Royal Bank Of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and set a GBX 225 target price on shares of Oxford Nanopore Technologies in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of GBX 218.60.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Company Profile

Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The Group has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology that is currently used for real-time, high-performance, accessible, and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA. The technology is used in more than 125 countries, to understand the biology of humans, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and environments as well as to understand diseases such as cancer.