Nkarta Inc (NKTX) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $1.82, with 0.43 million shares of worth about $0.78 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -22.22% during that period and on June 18, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.55%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 70.96M shares, out of which, 52.16M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -9.00% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.06%. Year-to-date (YTD), NKTX shares are showing a performance of -26.91% which decreased to -69.72% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $1.31 but also hit the highest price of $8.23 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Nkarta Inc shares is 1.15 million. The stock is currently trading -0.37% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.99% for SMA50 and it goes to -31.79% lower than SMA200.
Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ: NKTX) currently have 70.96M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.75% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $129.14M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.73. It has posted earnings per share of -$1.51 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 14.48 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for NKTX, volatility over the week remained 2.76% while standing at 3.53% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Nkarta Inc (NKTX) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.35 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -0.35 and it is -1.29 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.5 which is -0.25 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 -0.34 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 10.71% while it is estimated to increase by 9.47% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of -0.26% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -19.86% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by Rodman & Renshaw stated Nkarta Inc (NKTX) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on October 09, 2024, suggesting a price target of $14 for the stock. On August 14, 2024, Raymond James Upgrade their recommendations, while on March 22, 2024, Raymond James Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $16. Stock get a Perform rating from Oppenheimer on December 22, 2022.
