How to buy Recro Pharma stock | $2.14

Recro Pharma, Inc is a drug manufacturers-specialty & generic business based in the US. Recro Pharma shares (REPH) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Recro Pharma employs 213 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$74.2 million.

How to buy shares in Recro Pharma

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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 Recro Pharma. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: REPH. 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 Recro Pharma 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$2.14, 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 Recro Pharma, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Recro Pharma. 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.

Recro Pharma share price

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Recro Pharma shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-02.

Latest market close	USD$2.14
52-week range	USD$1.49 - USD$19.19
50-day moving average	USD$1.9511
200-day moving average	USD$3.2223
Wall St. target price	USD$6.75
PE ratio	35.15
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-2.752

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Is it a good time to buy Recro Pharma stock?

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Recro Pharma price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $2.14 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-08)	-28.43%
1 month (2020-12-16)	-34.15%
3 months (2020-10-15)	-0.93%
6 months (2020-07-15)	-51.36%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-86.86%
2 years (2019-01-15)	-72.60%
3 years (2018-01-12)	8.87
5 years (2016-01-15)	7.01

Is Recro Pharma under- or over-valued?

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

Recro Pharma's P/E ratio

Recro Pharma's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 35x. In other words, Recro Pharma shares trade at around 35x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Recro Pharma's EBITDA

Recro Pharma's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$9.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Recro Pharma's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Recro Pharma financials

Revenue TTM	USD$74.2 million
Operating margin TTM	0.74%
Gross profit TTM	USD$48.2 million
Return on assets TTM	0.25%
Return on equity TTM	0%
Profit margin	-34.14%
Book value	$-0.835
Market capitalisation	USD$56.5 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Recro Pharma shares

There are currently 819,363 Recro Pharma shares held short by investors – that's known as Recro Pharma's "short interest". This figure is 10.3% down from 913,842 last month.

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

Recro Pharma's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Recro Pharma's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Recro Pharma shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Recro Pharma shares traded daily (recently around 269527.30263158). Recro Pharma's SIR currently stands at 3.04. In other words for every 100,000 Recro Pharma shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3040 shares are currently held short.

However Recro Pharma's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Recro Pharma shares, or, against the total number of tradable Recro Pharma shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Recro Pharma's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Recro Pharma shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0423% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Recro Pharma shares, roughly 42 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 Recro Pharma.

Find out more about how you can short Recro Pharma stock.

Recro Pharma share dividends

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

Have Recro Pharma's shares ever split?

Recro Pharma's shares were split on a 1115:1000 basis on 22 November 2019. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1115 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Recro Pharma shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 10.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Recro Pharma shares which in turn could have impacted Recro Pharma's share price.

Recro Pharma share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Recro Pharma's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1.49 up to $19.19. 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 Recro Pharma's is 0.8129. This would suggest that Recro Pharma's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Recro Pharma overview

Recro Pharma, Inc. a contract development and manufacturing organization, engages in the development, manufacturing, and packaging of oral solid dose drug products to pharmaceutical market in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Recro Pharma I, Inc. and changed its name to Recro Pharma, Inc. in August 2008. Recro Pharma, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Recro Pharma is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.602% of Recro Pharma shares are held by insiders and 76.075% by institutions.

• How many people work for Recro Pharma?

  Latest data suggests 213 work at Recro Pharma.

• When does the fiscal year end for Recro Pharma?

  Recro Pharma's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Recro Pharma based?

  Recro Pharma's address is: 490 Lapp Road, Malvern, PA, United States, 19355

• What is Recro Pharma's ISIN number?

  Recro Pharma's international securities identification number is: US75629F1093

• What is Recro Pharma's CUSIP number?

  Recro Pharma's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 75629F109