Type
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Public (Acquisition by Land O'Lakes pending) |
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Traded as | NASDAQ: CERE |
Industry | Biotechnology |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | Thousand Oaks, California, United States |
Key people
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Richard Hamilton (President and CEO) |
Products | Seeds of energy crops |
Subsidiaries | Ceres Sementes do Brasil |
Website | ceres |
Ceres, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Thousand Oaks, California, United States. The company develops and produces seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuels production. In addition to the operations in the United States, it has a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil.
The company was founded in 1996. Since 2012 it is listed at the NASDAQ. As of February 2012, the largest shareholders were Artal Luxembourg, Warburg Pincus, Ambergate Trust and Oxford Bioscience, while biotechnology company Monsanto had 4.8% stake. The company's president and CEO is Richard Hamilton.
On June 21, 2016, Ceres was acquired by Land O'Lakes for $17.2 million.
Ceres sells sweet sorghum, switchgrass and high biomass sorghum seeds, with its first sales coming for the 2009 growing season. It has tested biofuels production from switchgrass and miscanthus. In 2010, Ceres started to cooperate with Novozymes to improve the enzyme cocktails for biorefinery switchgrass and sweet sorghum. USAID has funded Ceres' research on biotech traits and trait stacks in rice for Asia.
2026-12-18 | ||||
2014-01-10 | Lower Price Target | Barclays | Overweight | $9.00 to $5.00 |
2013-11-25 | Downgrade | Sidoti | Buy to Neutral | |
2013-04-17 | Reiterated | Barclays | Overweight | $11 to $13 |
2013-01-11 | Reiterated | Barclays | Overweight | $16 to $13 |
2012-06-08 | Initiated | Barclays | Overweight | $18 |
1970-01-01 |
2026-12-18 | ||||
2014-01-10 | Lower Price Target | Barclays | Overweight | $9.00 to $5.00 |
2013-11-25 | Downgrade | Sidoti | Buy to Neutral | |
2013-04-17 | Reiterated | Barclays | Overweight | $11 to $13 |
2013-01-11 | Reiterated | Barclays | Overweight | $16 to $13 |
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In CERE 83 funds of 2213 total. Show all
Fund name | Ticker shares |
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BAIN CAPITAL INVESTORS LLC | 60.63M |
FMR LLC | 23.32M |
PERCEPTIVE ADVISORS LLC | 6.51M |
Vanguard Group, Inc | 5.87M |
PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ | 4.77M |
BlackRock Inc. | 4.19M |
FEDERATED INVESTORS INC /PA/ | 3.31M |
STATE STREET CORP | 2.72M |
Rock Springs Capital Management LP | 2.50M |
HENDERSON GROUP PLC | 1.38M |
ALKEON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | 1.17M |
GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 1.13M |
LORD, ABBETT & CO. LLC | 1.09M |
Point72 Asset Management, L.P. | 1.08M |
Hood River Capital Management LLC | 0.90M |
Name Relationship | Total Shares | Holding stocks |
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ARTAL LUXEMBOURG S A | 17.00% (8192167) | CERE / |
Krieger David Benjamin | 5.11% (2460807) | CERE / KOS / |
Ambergate Trust | 5.09% (2452366) | CERE / |
Pennell Roger Ivan VP of Trait Development | 0.18% (85233) | CERE / |
Gwyn Joseph Jefferson VP of Breeding and Genomics | 0.10% (49033) | CERE / |
Olivier de Vezin Edmund Martin | 0.05% (25896) | CERE / |
KILEY THOMAS | 0.03% (16666) | CERE / GERN / TSPT / |
Carlson Robert W Jr. See Remarks | 0.02% (9500) | CERE / |