A new trading day began on Monday, with Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VKTX) stock price down -2.22% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $65.80. VKTX’s price has ranged from $8.28 to $99.41 over the past 52 weeks.
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Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -9.61%. With a float of $103.66 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $110.80 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 27 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 32.11%, operating margin of -28595.64%, and the pretax margin is -22189.22%.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Biotechnology Industry. The insider ownership of Viking Therapeutics Inc is 6.44%, while institutional ownership is 74.36%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Sep 20 ’24, was worth 715,850. In this transaction Director of this company sold 10,300 shares at a rate of $69.50, taking the stock ownership to the 9,500 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Sep 20 ’24, when Company’s President & CEO sold 216,130 for $70.83, making the entire transaction worth $15,308,553. This insider now owns 2,304,927 shares in total.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX) Earnings and Forecasts
In its latest quarterly report, released on 6/30/2024, the company reported earnings of -0.23 per share, which was $0.1 lower than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.28 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -9.61% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 40.00% during the next five years compared to -18.89% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VKTX) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Viking Therapeutics Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 37.69.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.94, a number that is poised to hit -0.24 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach -1.50 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 4.31 million, its volume of 1.56 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 50.92%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.30.
During the past 100 days, Viking Therapeutics Inc’s (VKTX) raw stochastic average was set at 69.45%, which indicates a significant increase from 41.80% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 50.33% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 81.86% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $62.65, while its 200-day Moving Average is $57.56. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $65.80 in the near term. At $67.25, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $68.24. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $63.36, it is likely to go to the next support level at $62.37. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $60.92.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VKTX) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 7.13 billion, the company has a total of 110,268K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 0 K while annual income is -85,900 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 0 K while its latest quarter income was -22,250 K.
