CERUS CORP (CERS)
NASDAQ · Instruments & Medical Devices · Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus
- Price
- $2.67
- Day
- +4.30%
- Market cap
- $538.07M
Close 2026-09-22.
The company
Overview We are a biomedical products company focused on developing and commercializing the INTERCEPT Blood System to enhance blood safety. The INTERCEPT Blood System, which is based on our proprietary technology for controlling biological replication, is designed to reduce blood-borne pathogens in donated blood components intended for transfusion. Our INTERCEPT Blood System is intended for use with blood components and certain of their derivatives: platelets, plasma, red blood cells and to produce INTERCEPT Fibrinogen Complex, or IFC, and pathogen reduced plasma, cryoprecipitate reduced. The INTERCEPT Blood System for platelets, or platelet system, and the INTERCEPT Blood System for plasma, or plasma system, have received a broad range of regulatory approvals and certification, including but not limited to FDA approval in the U.S., CE Certificates of Conformity delivered in accordance with the Medical Devices Regulation 2017/745, or MDR, permitting us to affix the CE Mark to our products and place them on the market in the European Union and other jurisdictions that recognize the CE Mark, and are being marketed and sold in a number of countries around the world, including the U.S., certain countries in Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, the Middle East, and Latin America and selected countries in other regions of the world. Additionally, we have received FDA approval for the INTERCEPT Blood System for Cryoprecipitation.
From Item 1: Overview.
By product & service
- Product — 88%
- Government Contract — 12%
Institutional holders
Largest positions reported on Form 13F for the quarter ended 2026-06-30, by value.
- ARK Investment Management LLC — $52.36M
- BlackRock, Inc. — $27.31M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC — $25.01M
- BlackRock, Inc. — $23.25M
- BAKER BROS. ADVISORS LP — $18.67M
- STATE STREET CORP — $13.88M
- Senvest Management, LLC — $13.47M
- GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC — $12.85M
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sales filed on Form 4, newest first. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are left out.
- Jensen Chrystal (Chief Legal Officer) sold 30,000 shares at $2.98 on 2026-08-17
- Jayaraman Vivek K (Chief Executive Officer) sold 16,666 shares at $3.16 on 2026-07-16
- Jayaraman Vivek K (Chief Operating Officer) sold 42,359 shares at $2.94 on 2026-06-30
- Jensen Chrystal (Chief Legal Officer) sold 24,329 shares at $2.94 on 2026-06-30
- Green Kevin Dennis (Chief Financial Officer) sold 33,676 shares at $2.94 on 2026-06-30
- Greenman William Mariner (President and CEO) sold 101,919 shares at $2.94 on 2026-06-30
Recent filings
- 144 — 2026-08-17
- 4 — 2026-08-17
- SCHEDULE 13G/A — 2026-08-14
- SCHEDULE 13G/A — 2026-08-14
- SCHEDULE 13G/A — 2026-08-13
- S-8 — 2026-07-30
- 10-Q — 2026-07-30
- 8-K — 2026-07-30
- 4 — 2026-07-20
- 144 — 2026-07-16