Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VKTX) established initial surge of 1.22% at $25.79, as the Stock market unbolted on Wednesday, before settling in for the price of $25.48 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, VKTX posted a 52-week range of $18.92-$81.86.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Healthcare sector firm’s annual sales growth was 0.00%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -23.00%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -62.30%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $111.57 million, simultaneously with a float of $108.97 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $2.86 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $27.09, while the 200-day Moving Average is $47.33.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it is also beneficial to study the sentiment of large-scale investors towards the stock of the Viking Therapeutics Inc industry. Viking Therapeutics Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 2.96%, in contrast to 73.35% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 31 ’25, this organization’s Director bought 1,240 shares at the rate of 24.15, making the entire transaction reach 29,943 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 1,240. Preceding that transaction, on Jan 06 ’25, Company’s President & CEO sold 194,490 for 42.75, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 8,313,601. This particular insider is now the holder of 2,366,570 in total.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX) Earnings and Revenue Records
Viking Therapeutics Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -62.30% and is forecasted to reach -2.19 in the upcoming year.
Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VKTX) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 33.09. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 2.23.
In the same vein, VKTX’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -1.01, a figure that is expected to reach -0.39 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be -2.19 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX)
Now, what If we examine the latest scores posted by [Viking Therapeutics Inc, VKTX]. During the last 5-days, its volume was lower the volume of 4.48 million it reported in year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 73.19% While, its Average True Range was 2.20.
Raw Stochastic average of Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 18.40%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 84.09% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 106.28% that was higher than 82.48% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
