Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $5.05, with 5.23 million shares of worth about $26.44 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -11.40% during that period and on January 22, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.85%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 236.89M shares, out of which, 227.50M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -10.14% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 9.54%. Year-to-date (YTD), ARDX shares are showing a performance of -0.39% which decreased to -39.01% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $4.32 but also hit the highest price of $10.13 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Ardelyx Inc shares is 4.86 million. The stock is currently trading -1.24% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.11% for SMA50 and it goes to -16.72% lower than SMA200.
Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ: ARDX) currently have 236.89M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.53% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.20B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.84. It has posted earnings per share of -$0.31 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 3.87 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ARDX, volatility over the week remained 7.06% while standing at 7.35% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.0 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -0.12 and it is -0.18 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.04 which is 0.02 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -0.12 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 43.17% while it is estimated to increase by 19.16% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by H.C. Wainwright on November 11, 2024 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $11 and $5.50 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on July 02, 2024, suggesting a price target of $7 for the stock. On April 05, 2024, Leerink Partners Initiated their recommendations, while on December 18, 2023, Raymond James Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $12. Stock get a Buy rating from H.C. Wainwright on September 07, 2023.
