Today's Dead Cat Bounce Stock: Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI)
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a "dead cat bounce" (down big yesterday but up big today) candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Intra-Cellular Therapies as such a stock due to the following factors:
- ITCI has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $29.5 million.
- ITCI has traded 64,566 shares today.
- ITCI is up 3.2% today.
- ITCI was down 7% yesterday.
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More details on ITCI:
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops small molecule drugs for the treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurologic disorders within the central nervous system (CNS). Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Intra-Cellular Therapies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.
The average volume for Intra-Cellular Therapies has been 1.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Intra-Cellular has a market cap of $1.8 billion and is part of the health care sector and drugs industry. Shares are up 171.1% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.
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Analysis:
rates Intra-Cellular Therapies as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Compared to its closing price of one year ago, ITCI's share price has jumped by 242.47%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. Regarding the stock's future course, our hold rating indicates that we do not recommend additional investment in this stock despite its gains in the past year.
- ITCI has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 21.89, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
- Compared to other companies in the Pharmaceuticals industry and the overall market, INTRA-CELLULAR THERAPIES INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- INTRA-CELLULAR THERAPIES INC has experienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share have declined over the last year. We anticipate that this should continue in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, INTRA-CELLULAR THERAPIES INC reported poor results of -$1.10 versus -$0.36 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 146.4% in earnings (-$2.71 versus -$1.10).
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Pharmaceuticals industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 374.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from -$4.53 million to -$21.51 million.
- You can view the full Intra-Cellular Therapies Ratings Report.
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