Currently, there are 111.44M common shares owned by the public and among those 107.90M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 15.82% and 31.85% over the past three months. VKTX shares are trading 300.43% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 671.03% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $8.28 and touched a high of $99.41 over the same period. VKTX has an average intraday trading volume of 3.40 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 13.22%, 16.66%, and 26.75% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VKTX) shares accounts for 73.98% of the company’s 111.44M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $8.30B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.00. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.94. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 9.96% over the week and 6.18% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -6.59%, and -55.84% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 40.00% over the next five years, compared to -18.89% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the VKTX, 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 September 11, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $80. Morgan Stanley coverage for the Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX) stock in a research note released on June 27, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $105. Raymond James was of a view on May 16, 2024 that the stock is Strong Buy, while Oppenheimer gave the stock Outperform rating on March 26, 2024, issuing a price target of $116- $138. Jefferies on their part issued Buy rating on March 07, 2024.
