Aeterna Zentaris (TSE:AEZS) Stock Price Down 38.5% – Time to Sell?

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (TSE:AEZS) shares dropped 38.5% during trading on Monday . The stock traded as low as C$5.10 and last traded at C$5.10. Approximately 286 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 75% from the average daily volume of 1,137 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$8.29.

Aeterna Zentaris Price Performance

The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is C$5.65 and its 200 day simple moving average is C$7.38. The firm has a market cap of C$15.61 million, a P/E ratio of -1.60 and a beta of 2.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.80, a quick ratio of 9.37 and a current ratio of 5.94.

About Aeterna Zentaris

Aeterna Zentaris Inc, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing and commercializing therapeutics and diagnostic tests in Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, the United States, and internationally. Its lead product is Macrilen (macimorelin), an orally available peptidomimetic ghrelin receptor (GHSR-1a) agonist that stimulates the secretion of growth hormone by binding to the GHSR-1a for the diagnosis of patients with adult growth hormone deficiency and childhood-onset growth hormone deficiency, as well as endocrinology and oncology indications; AEZS-150, a delayed clearance parathyroid hormone fusion polypeptide that is in preclinical trial for the treatment of chronic hypoparathyroidism; and AEZS-130 that is in preclinical trial for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.