How to buy Liminal BioSciences stock

Liminal BioSciences Inc is a biotechnology business based in the US. Liminal BioSciences shares (LMNL) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Liminal BioSciences employs 251 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$3.3 million.

How to buy shares in Liminal BioSciences

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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 Liminal BioSciences. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: LMNL. 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 Liminal BioSciences 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. 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 Liminal BioSciences, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Liminal BioSciences. 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.

Liminal BioSciences share price

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Liminal BioSciences shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-13.

52-week range	USD$3.51 - USD$21.29
50-day moving average	USD$4.4538
200-day moving average	USD$5.2961
Wall St. target price	USD$9.98
PE ratio	2.3681
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-12.8072

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Is Liminal BioSciences under- or over-valued?

Valuing Liminal BioSciences stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Liminal BioSciences's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Liminal BioSciences's P/E ratio

Liminal BioSciences's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 2x. In other words, Liminal BioSciences shares trade at around 2x 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.

Liminal BioSciences financials

Revenue TTM	USD$3.3 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$-55,542,000
Return on assets TTM	-41.58%
Return on equity TTM	-222.18%
Profit margin	0%
Book value	N/A
Market capitalisation	USD$123.1 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Liminal BioSciences shares

There are currently 285,673 Liminal BioSciences shares held short by investors – that's known as Liminal BioSciences's "short interest". This figure is 4.8% down from 300,041 last month.

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

Liminal BioSciences's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Liminal BioSciences's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Liminal BioSciences shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Liminal BioSciences shares traded daily (recently around 529024.07407407). Liminal BioSciences's SIR currently stands at 0.54. In other words for every 100,000 Liminal BioSciences shares traded daily on the market, roughly 540 shares are currently held short.

However Liminal BioSciences's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Liminal BioSciences shares, or, against the total number of tradable Liminal BioSciences shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Liminal BioSciences's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Liminal BioSciences shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0299% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Liminal BioSciences shares, roughly 30 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 Liminal BioSciences.

Find out more about how you can short Liminal BioSciences stock.

Liminal BioSciences share dividends

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

Have Liminal BioSciences's shares ever split?

Liminal BioSciences's shares were split on a 1:1000 basis on 4 July 2019. So if you had owned 1000 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 Liminal BioSciences shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 99900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Liminal BioSciences shares which in turn could have impacted Liminal BioSciences's share price.

Liminal BioSciences share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Liminal BioSciences's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.51 up to $21.29. 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 Liminal BioSciences's is 1.4352. This would suggest that Liminal BioSciences's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Liminal BioSciences overview

Liminal BioSciences Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovery, development, and commercialization of novel small molecule drug candidates for the treatment of patients suffering from respiratory fibrotic diseases and other fibrotic or inflammatory diseases that have high unmet medical needs. It operates through two segments, Small Molecule Therapeutics and Plasma-Derived Therapeutics. The Small Molecule Therapeutics segment's lead product candidate is fezagepras (PBI-4050), which is in Phase 1 for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and respiratory diseases. The Plasma-Derived Therapeutics segment focused on the development of its plasma-derived product candidate Ryplazim, a purified glu-plasminogen derived from human plasma that acts as a plasminogen replacement therapy for patients deficient in plasminogen protein. The company operates in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The company was formerly known as Prometic Life Sciences Inc.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Liminal BioSciences is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 66.404% of Liminal BioSciences shares are held by insiders and 2.402% by institutions.

• How many people work for Liminal BioSciences?

  Latest data suggests 251 work at Liminal BioSciences.

• When does the fiscal year end for Liminal BioSciences?

  Liminal BioSciences's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Liminal BioSciences based?

  Liminal BioSciences's address is: 440 Boulevard Armand-Frappier, Laval, QC, Canada, H7V 4B4

• What is Liminal BioSciences's ISIN number?

  Liminal BioSciences's international securities identification number is: CA53272L1031

• What is Liminal BioSciences's CUSIP number?

  Liminal BioSciences's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 53272L103