Catalyst Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology business based in the US. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals shares (CPRX) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $23.06 – a decrease of 5.06% over the previous week. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals employs 181 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $491.7 million.
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| Latest market close | $23.06 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $14.47 - $26.16 |
| 50-day moving average | $22.69 |
| 200-day moving average | $21.27 |
| Wall St. target price | $34.00 |
| PE ratio | 18.5267 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.31 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $24.3 from 2025-05-05
| 1 week (2025-04-30) | 0.04% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-08) | 13.55% |
| 3 months (2025-02-07) | 6.11% |
| 6 months (2024-11-08) | 1.55% |
| 1 year (2024-05-08) | 65.08% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 41.20% |
| 3 years (2022-05-06) | 236.57% |
| 5 years (2020-05-07) | 402.07% |
Valuing Catalyst Pharmaceuticals stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, Catalyst Pharmaceuticals shares trade at around 19x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $232.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $491.7 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 44.31% |
| Gross profit TTM | $421.1 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 18.46% |
| Return on equity TTM | 29.38% |
| Profit margin | 33.33% |
| Book value | $6.02 |
| Market Capitalization | $3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Catalyst Pharmaceuticals to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's shares have ranged in value from as little as $14.47 up to $26.158. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's is 0.787. This would suggest that Catalyst Pharmaceuticals's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing and commercializing medicines for patients living with rare diseases in the United States. It offers Firdapse for the treatment of patients with lambert-eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS); Fycompa, a novel non-competitive selective antagonist at the postsynaptic ionotropic alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid glutamate receptor that is used to treat focal onset seizures, as well as tonic-clonic seizures; Ruzurgi for the treatment of pediatric LEMS patients; and AGAMREE, a corticosteroid for the treatment of duchenne muscular dystrophy. The company has license agreements with BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. ; and a collaboration and license agreement with Endo Ventures Limited for the development and commercialization of generic Sabril tablets. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Coral Gables, Florida.
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