Cerus Corporation

CERS · NasdaqGM · Stock · Healthcare
$2.25
+0.22% today
Delayed price,

What Cerus does

Cerus Corporation operates as a biomedical products company. The company focuses on developing and commercializing the INTERCEPT Blood System to enhance blood safety. The company offers INTERCEPT Blood System, a proprietary technology for controlling biological replication that is designed to reduce blood-borne pathogens in donated blood components intended for transfusion. The company also offers INTERCEPT Blood Systems for platelets plasma, and cryoprecipitation, which is designed to inactivate blood-borne pathogens in platelets and plasma donated for transfusion; INTERCEPT Blood System for red blood cells to inactivate blood-borne pathogens in red blood cells intended for transfusion; INTERCEPT Blood System for Cryoprecipitation that uses its plasma system to produce pathogen reduced cryoprecipitated fibrinogen complex for the treatment and control of bleeding, including massive hemorrhage associated with fibrinogen deficiency, as well as pathogen reduced plasma and cryoprecipitate reduced; and INTERCEPT Illuminator, an LED-based device for blood component treatment. It sells platelet and plasma systems through its direct sales force and distributors in the United States, Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Middle East, Latin America, and internationally. The company was formerly known as CERUS TECHNOLOGIES INC and changed its name to Cerus Corporation in July 1996. The company was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Concord, California.

Key facts

Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Medical Devices
Market cap
$452.4M
P/E (ttm)
—
Forward P/E
-449.0
Dividend yield
0.00%
Beta
1.83
Profit margin
-3.1%
Employees
261
Headquarters
Concord, CA, United States
Exchange
NasdaqGM

Performance

1 Month
-15.3%
3 Months
-28.3%
6 Months
+7.9%
1 Year
+46.7%
5 Years
-67.4%
$1.3852-week range$3.47
Biggest setback — last 12 months
-35.0%
12 Jan 2026 → 9 Mar 2026
Fell from $2.60 to $1.69 — its sharpest sustained decline this year.
Biggest run-up — last 12 months
+115.0%
27 Oct 2025 → 29 Jun 2026
Ran from $1.47 to $3.16 — its strongest sustained advance this year.

Price outlook — trend & volatility model

● Trend: Below long-term trend
Price sits below its 200-day average, but the shorter-term averages are not cleanly aligned above/below it.
HorizonBear case (−1σ)Base caseBull case (+1σ)
1 Month$1.81 (-19.6%)$2.25$2.79 (+24.3%)
3 Months$1.54 (-31.4%)$2.25$3.27 (+45.8%)
6 Months$1.32 (-41.3%)$2.25$3.82 (+70.4%)
12 Months$1.06 (-52.9%)$2.25$4.77 (+112.4%)
Statistical, not machine-learning: a random-walk (no assumed drift) volatility model built from this ticker's own realized price history, plus a purely descriptive moving-average trend read. Illustrative only — not a price target and not financial advice. The bear and bull cases sit one standard deviation (1σ) below and above today's price, a range that covers about 68% of the outcomes the model treats as plausible, not a 68% chance of either case. Annualized volatility used: 75.3%, blended from this ticker's own 3-month and 1-year realized price history. Base case is deliberately flat — this quantifies a possible range, not a directional prediction. See the full model, including wider (≈95%) bands →

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Recent insider activity

Sold 30,000 shares at $2.98 — Jensen Chrystal, Chief Legal Officer · 2026-08-17
Sold 16,666 shares at $3.16 — Jayaraman Vivek K, Chief Executive Officer · 2026-07-20
Sold 97,276 shares at $2.94 — Green Kevin Dennis, Chief Financial Officer · 2026-07-02
Acquired 676,888 shares at $2.94 — Jayaraman Vivek K, Chief Operating Officer · 2026-07-02
Sold 79,329 shares at $2.94 — Jensen Chrystal, Chief Legal Officer · 2026-07-02
Source: SEC Form 4 filings. An "acquired" entry with no price is typically a stock award or option exercise rather than an open-market purchase. Search all insider trades →

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