Oxford Nanopore Technologies (LON:ONT) Insider Francis Van Parys Buys 121 Shares

Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (LON:ONT) insider Francis Van Parys bought 121 shares of Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 12th. The shares were bought 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 bought 133 shares of Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock. The shares were bought 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 acquired at an average cost of GBX 110 per share, for a total transaction of £149.60.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Price Performance

LON:ONT traded up GBX 0.75 during trading hours on Monday, hitting GBX 118.20. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,050,347 shares, compared to its average volume of 11,096,486. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 121.59 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 129.62. The company has a market capitalization of £1.15 billion, a P/E ratio of -7.83 and a beta of 0.91. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 8.96, a current ratio of 3.56 and a quick ratio of 6.01. Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc has a twelve month low of GBX 104 and a twelve month high of GBX 224.80.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a GBX 225 price objective on shares of Oxford Nanopore Technologies in a research note 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 stock. According to MarketBeat, 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.