Currently, there are 232.45M common shares owned by the public and among those 223.68M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 30 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 6 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 119,428 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 24 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 154,128 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 9.09, down -1.59%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -6.67% and 100.93% over the past three months. ARDX shares are trading 40.00% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 194.24% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $2.82 and touched a high of $10.13 over the same period. ARDX has an average intraday trading volume of 6.34 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 -4.29%, 10.08%, and 77.03% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ: ARDX) shares accounts for 59.50% of the company’s 232.45M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.02B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.87. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.30. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 5.98% over the week and 5.59% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) will achieve an EPS of -$0.11 for the current quarter, -$0.08 for the next quarter and $0.13 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -$0.23 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -$0.08. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -$0.13 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -38.55%, and 111.63% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 30.00% over the next five years, compared to 28.61% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the ARDX, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Raymond James stated their Strong Buy rating for the stock in a research note on December 18, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $12. H.C. Wainwright coverage for the Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) stock in a research note released on September 07, 2023 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $9. Cantor Fitzgerald was of a view on August 25, 2023 that the stock is Overweight, while Wedbush gave the stock Outperform rating on March 03, 2023, issuing a price target of $3- $6. Piper Sandler on their part issued Overweight rating on November 17, 2022.
