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Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLX): Can The Stock Still Lose Despite An -13.18% YTD Loss?

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AMLX)’s traded shares stood at 2.32 million during the last session. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $32.08, to imply a decrease of -4.52% or -$1.52 in intraday trading. The AMLX share’s 52-week high remains $41.93, putting it -30.7% down since that peak but still an impressive 79.71% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $6.51. The company has a valuation of $2.30B, with an average of 1.18 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 892.66K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of a Buy for Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLX), translating to a mean rating of 1.70. Of 6 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give AMLX a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 5 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -$0.83.

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Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AMLX) trade information

After registering a -4.52% downside in the last session, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLX) has traded red over the past five days. The stock hit a weekly high of 38.32 this Thursday, 03/16/23, dropping -4.52% in its intraday price action. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -3.26%, and -8.58% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -13.18%. Short interest in Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AMLX) saw shorts transact 5.74 million shares and set a 6.81 days time to cover.

Analysts on Wall Street suggest a consensus price target of $50.20, implying an increase of 36.1% to the stock’s current value. The extremes give us $47.00 and $54.00 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, AMLX has been trading -68.33% off suggested target high and -46.51% from its likely low.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLX) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLX) shares are 6.01% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 88.79% against 9.50%. Revenue is forecast to grow 80.00% this quarter before jumping 8.60% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 994.70% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 4 analysts is $3.1 million. Meanwhile, for the quarter ending Mar 2023, a total of 1 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to $5.25 million.

AMLX Dividends

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has its next earnings report out on November 10. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. has a forward dividend ratio of 0, with the share yield ticking at 0.00% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.00%.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AMLX)’s Major holders

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. insiders hold 24.57% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 66.47% of the shares at 88.12% float percentage. In total, 66.47% institutions holds shares in the company, led by Viking Global Investors, L.P. As of Sep 29, 2022, the company held over 5.77 million shares (or 8.71% of shares), all amounting to roughly $162.44 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is Perceptive Advisors Llc with 5.47 million shares, or about 8.26% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on Sep 29, 2022, these shares were worth $154.04 million.

We also have Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLX) shares. Going by data provided on Sep 29, 2022, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 1.22 million shares. This is just over 1.85% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $34.47 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 1.14 million, or 1.73% of the shares, all valued at about 42.3 million.

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