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Natera Shares Soar Over 20% To All-Time High

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Natera Shares Soar Over 20% To All-Time High
Natera shares closed up 21.3% at $322.10 on Friday, recording an all‑time high and pushing co‑founder Matthew Rabinowitz’s estimated net worth to at least $1.5 billion.
21.3 % · Natera shares322.1 $ · Natera sharesat least 1.5 $ · Matthew Rabinowitz , company’s annual proxy filing and market data
Natera reported $752.8 million in revenue in the second quarter, well above the estimate of $673.9 million.
752.8 $ · Natera673.9 $ · Natera , Finnhub earnings data
Natera’s market capitalization jumped to $46.1 billion after ending July around $38 billion.
46.1 $ · Natera38 $ · Natera , market data
Matthew Rabinowitz holds roughly 2.28 million shares worth approximately $717 million, as well as options and vesting restricted stock units.
2.28 shares · Matthew Rabinowitz717 $ · Matthew Rabinowitz , company’s proxy filing and insider transaction disclosures
Natera shares have grown 40.6% since the start of the year, when they were priced around $228.
40.6 % · Natera shares228 $ · Natera shares , article
The lowest closing price of Natera shares this year was $182.65 in late March.
182.65 $ · Natera shares , article
Matthew Rabinowitz holds roughly 19.4% of genome firm MyOme on a fully diluted basis as of March 31.
19.4 % · Matthew Rabinowitz , proxy
Natera’s annual revenue jumped to $2.3 billion within the last decade, up from the low hundreds of millions.
2.3 $ · Natera , article

Genomics powerhouse Natera surged in trading Friday following a blowout second-quarter earnings report and a strong revenue beat, sending the stock to an all-time high and its co-founder’s billionaire fortune even higher.

Natera shares closed up 21.3% at $322.10 on Friday, recording an all-time high and pushing co-founder Matthew Rabinowitz’s estimated net worth to at least $1.5 billion, according to the company's annual proxy filing and market data.

Friday’s surge in share price was fueled by what one analyst described as “blowout volume” for Natera’s cancer-detecting blood test Signatera in the second quarter, as the company reported $752.8 million in revenue, well above the estimate of $673.9 million, according to Finnhub earnings data.

Natera’s market capitalization jumped to $46.1 billion after ending July around $38 billion, according to market data.

Rabinowitz holds roughly 2.28 million shares worth approximately $717 million, as well as options and vesting restricted stock units, according to the company's proxy filing and insider transaction disclosures.

40.6%. That is how much Natera shares have grown since the start of the year, when they were priced around the $228 mark. The company’s lowest closing price this year occurred in late March, when shares fell to $182.65.

Rabinowitz also holds roughly 19.4% of genome firm MyOme on a fully diluted basis as of March 31, according to the proxy.

Rabinowitz was chief executive for a location-services technology company between 2000 and 2007 and co-founded Natera in 2005, working as chief executive for 14 years before becoming executive chairman. A Stanford University graduate, he also logged stints as a consulting professor at his alma mater from 2004 to 2012 and later worked in Harvard’s genetics department. His research spans over 100 patents and publications about subjects like bioinformatics, machine learning and genetic testing, which earned him IEEE's Scott Helt Memorial Award and the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Award for two separate companies he founded. Natera appears to have benefited from his leadership, dramatically increasing testing volume and jumping from annual revenue in the low hundreds of millions to $2.3 billion within the last decade.

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