Virtu Financial LLC Acquires Shares of 40,399 NuCana plc (NASDAQ:NCNA)

Virtu Financial LLC bought a new position in NuCana plc (NASDAQ:NCNA) during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm bought 40,399 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $48,000.

NuCana Stock Performance

Shares of NuCana stock opened at $0.89 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.35 million, a P/E ratio of -0.08 and a beta of 0.89. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $0.94 and its 200 day simple moving average is $1.43. NuCana plc has a 52-week low of $0.69 and a 52-week high of $10.79.

NuCana (NASDAQ:NCNA) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, March 20th. The company reported ($0.32) earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($2.43) by $2.11. Equities research analysts forecast that NuCana plc will post -13.42 EPS for the current fiscal year.

NuCana Profile

NuCana plc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development of medicines to treat patients with cancer. It applies its ProTide technology to transform prescribed chemotherapy agents and nucleoside analogs into medicines. The company, through its technology, is developing ProTides medicines to overcome the limitations of nucleoside analogs and generate much higher concentrations of anti-cancer metabolites in cancer cells.