Zentalis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ZNTL) Posts Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.91 EPS

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ZNTL) released its earnings results on Tuesday. The company reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.77) by $0.91, Briefing.com reports. The company had revenue of $40.56 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $35.00 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted ($1.07) earnings per share.

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals Stock Performance

Shares of ZNTL stock opened at $12.31 on Wednesday. Zentalis Pharmaceuticals has a 1 year low of $9.56 and a 1 year high of $31.46. The firm has a market capitalization of $874.13 million, a PE ratio of -2.71 and a beta of 1.82. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $13.76 and a two-hundred day moving average of $13.43.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on the company. Wedbush lifted their price objective on Zentalis Pharmaceuticals from $12.00 to $15.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 28th. HC Wainwright restated a “buy” rating and set a $46.00 price objective on shares of Zentalis Pharmaceuticals in a research note on Wednesday, February 28th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $38.57.

Insider Activity at Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

In other Zentalis Pharmaceuticals news, CFO Melissa B. Epperly sold 2,573 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $11.44, for a total transaction of $29,435.12. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 451,449 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,164,576.56. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Company insiders own 6.10% of the company’s stock.

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals Company Profile

Zentalis Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering and developing small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of various cancers. Its products candidatures include the ZN-c3, an inhibitor of WEE1, a protein tyrosine kinase for the treatment of inhibitor for advanced solid tumors and hematological malignancies; in Phase 2 clinical trial as a monotherapy for the treatment of uterine serous carcinoma indications; Phase 2 clinical trial in Cyclin E1 driven high-grade serous ovarian cancer, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer; Phase 1/2 clinical trial in combination with PARPi for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer; Phase 1b clinical trial in combination with chemotherapy in platinum-resistant ovarian, and peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer; Phase 1/2 clinical trial in combination with chemotherapy in relapsed or refractory osteosarcoma; Phase 1/2 clinical trial with encorafenib and cetuximab for mutant metastatic colorectal cancer; and Phase 1/2 clinical trial in combination with chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer.