Van Eck Associates Corp. recently announced the acquisition of new stake in Iris Energy Ltd (NASDAQ:IREN). The institutional investor has increased its shareholding in the Financial company by 19.71% to 1.12 million shares with purchase of 0.18 million shares. This fresh investment now brings its stake to 1.63% valued currently at $5.52 million. In addition, SIGNAL IDUNA Asset Management Gmb raised its holdings by 0.75 million to 0.75 million shares.
Currently, there are 64.75M common shares owned by the public and among those 50.07M shares have been available to trade.
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The top 3 mutual fund holders in Iris Energy Ltd are Global X Blockchain ETF, BIT Global Crypto Leaders, and VanEck UCITS ETFs Plc – Crypto &. Global X Blockchain ETF owns 0.87 million shares of the company’s stock, all valued at over $4.27 million. VanEck UCITS ETFs Plc – Crypto & now owns shares totaling to 1.00% of the shares outstanding.
However, the script later moved the day high at 6.39, down -4.67%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 11.07% and 35.87% over the past three months. IREN shares are trading 357.60% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 314.49% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $1.02 and touched a high of $8.06 over the same period. IREN has an average intraday trading volume of 2.47 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 16.94%, 48.37%, and 36.38% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Iris Energy Ltd (NASDAQ: IREN) shares accounts for 18.86% of the company’s 64.75M shares outstanding. Mutual fund holders own 8.82%, while other institutional holders and individual stakeholders account for 9.89% and — respectively.
It has a market capitalization of $380.49M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 2.82. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 0.41. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 13.89% over the week and 12.63% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Iris Energy Ltd (IREN) will achieve an EPS of $0 for the current quarter, $0 for the next quarter and -$0.1 for 2024. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 97.43%, and 628.49% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the IREN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. JP Morgan stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on October 11, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $6-$6.50.
