Analysts expect Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESPR) to announce $18.96 million in sales for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Four analysts have issued estimates for Esperion Therapeutics’ earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $50.00 million and the lowest estimate coming in at $8.00 million. Esperion Therapeutics reported sales of $980,000.00 during the same quarter last year, which would suggest a positive year-over-year growth rate of 1,834.7%. The firm is expected to report its next quarterly earnings report after the market closes on Tuesday, February 23rd.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Esperion Therapeutics will report full-year sales of $236.89 million for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $225.91 million to $268.00 million. For the next financial year, analysts expect that the firm will report sales of $80.79 million, with estimates ranging from $50.00 million to $119.60 million. Zacks’ sales averages are a mean average based on a survey of research analysts that cover Esperion Therapeutics.
Several analysts have issued reports on the company. Bank of America lowered Esperion Therapeutics from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their price target for the company from $52.00 to $35.00 in a report on Friday, January 15th. The Goldman Sachs Group lowered Esperion Therapeutics from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $44.00 to $24.00 in a research note on Tuesday, February 9th. Jefferies Financial Group lowered Esperion Therapeutics from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $40.00 to $30.00 in a research note on Friday, February 12th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group raised Esperion Therapeutics from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $45.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Tuesday, November 10th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $68.17.
NASDAQ:ESPR traded down $0.67 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $27.93. 22,094 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,009,383. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $30.00 and its 200-day moving average price is $31.54. Esperion Therapeutics has a one year low of $23.90 and a one year high of $67.59. The firm has a market cap of $778.60 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -7.43 and a beta of 1.48.
About Esperion Therapeutics
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc, a pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes medicines for the treatment of patients with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the United States. Its lead product candidates are NEXLETOL (bempedoic acid) and NEXLIZET (bempedoic acid and ezetimibe) tablets for the treatment of patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
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