How to buy Biocept stock | $6.5

Biocept, Inc is a diagnostics & research business based in the US. Biocept shares (BIOC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Biocept employs 88 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$10.7 million.

How to buy shares in Biocept

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Biocept. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: BIOC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Biocept reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$6.5, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Biocept, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Biocept. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Biocept share price

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Biocept shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-01-23.

Latest market close	USD$6.5
52-week range	USD$2.112 - USD$15.9
50-day moving average	USD$5.1803
200-day moving average	USD$5.6921
Wall St. target price	USD$20
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-2.631

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Biocept price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $6.5 from 2021-01-22

1 week (2021-01-19)	4.33%
1 month (2020-12-24)	38.00%
3 months (2020-10-26)	49.08%
6 months (2020-07-24)	813.69%

1 year (2020-01-24)	1,931.25%
2 years (2019-01-25)	235.05%
3 years (2018-01-26)	1,741.36%
5 years (2016-01-26)	357.75%

Biocept financials

Revenue TTM	USD$10.7 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$-5,448,954
Return on assets TTM	-60.98%
Return on equity TTM	-174.97%
Profit margin	-236.84%
Book value	$1.594
Market capitalisation	USD$87.1 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Biocept shares

There are currently 606,597 Biocept shares held short by investors – that's known as Biocept's "short interest". This figure is 14% up from 532,324 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Biocept shares can be evaluated.

Biocept's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Biocept's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Biocept shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Biocept shares traded daily (recently around 905368.65671642). Biocept's SIR currently stands at 0.67. In other words for every 100,000 Biocept shares traded daily on the market, roughly 670 shares are currently held short.

However Biocept's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Biocept shares, or, against the total number of tradable Biocept shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Biocept's short interest could be expressed as 0.05% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Biocept shares in existence, roughly 50 shares are currently held short) or 0.0453% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Biocept shares, roughly 45 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Biocept.

Find out more about how you can short Biocept stock.

Biocept share dividends

We're not expecting Biocept to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Biocept's shares ever split?

Biocept's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 8 September 2020. So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Biocept shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Biocept shares which in turn could have impacted Biocept's share price.

Biocept share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Biocept's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.112 up to $15.9. 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 Biocept's is 0.8556. This would suggest that Biocept's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Biocept overview

Biocept, Inc., an early stage molecular oncology diagnostics company, develops and commercializes proprietary circulating tumor cell and circulating tumor DNA assays utilizing a standard blood sample. The company's cancer assays provide information to healthcare providers to identify oncogenic alterations that qualify a subset of cancer patients for targeted therapy at diagnosis, progression, and monitoring in order to identify resistance mechanisms. It offers assays for solid tumor indications, such as breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, melanoma, pancreaticobiliary cancer, and ovarian cancer. The company's Target-Selector molecular technology enables detection of mutations and genome alterations with enhanced sensitivity and specificity, as well as is applicable to nucleic acid from ctDNA. In addition, it offers laboratory services to medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, urologists, pulmonologists, pathologists, and other physicians to determine the treatment plan for their patients, as well as to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies developing drug candidate therapies to treat cancer. The company sells its cancer diagnostic assays directly to oncologists and other physicians at private and group practices, hospitals, laboratories, and cancer centers in the United States, as well as markets its clinical trial and research services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations. Biocept, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Biocept is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.017% of Biocept shares are held by insiders and 14.897% by institutions.

• How many people work for Biocept?

  Latest data suggests 88 work at Biocept.

• When does the fiscal year end for Biocept?

  Biocept's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Biocept based?

  Biocept's address is: 9955 Mesa Rim Road, San Diego, CA, United States, 92121

• What is Biocept's ISIN number?

  Biocept's international securities identification number is: US09072V5012

• What is Biocept's CUSIP number?

  Biocept's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 09072V105