At $7.41 Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ: ARDX) Is Worth A Gamble

Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX)’s traded shares stood at 4.51 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.87. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $7.41, to imply a decrease of -0.13% or -$0.01 in intraday trading. The ARDX share’s 52-week high remains $10.13, putting it -36.71% down since that peak but still an impressive 57.35% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $3.16. The company has a valuation of $1.72B, with an average of 5.69 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 6.29 million shares over the past 3 months.

Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX) trade information

After registering a -0.13% downside in the last session, Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) has traded red over the past five days. The stock hit a weekly high of 8.02, dropping -0.13% in its intraday price action. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -5.00%, and -23.37% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 19.52%. Short interest in Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX) saw shorts transact 33.61 million shares and set a 5.94 days time to cover.

Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Ardelyx Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) shares are 82.51% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at -46.67% against 10.40%. Revenue is forecast to shrink -7.70% this quarter before falling -50.00% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 68.30% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 8 analysts is $36.71 million. Meanwhile, for the quarter ending Jun 2024, a total of 8 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to $47.8 million.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in $11.37 million and $15.27 million respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 222.90% before jumping 213.00% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 28.61% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a -38.55% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 30.00% annually.

ARDX Dividends

Ardelyx Inc has its next earnings report out between May 01 and May 06. 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. Ardelyx 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%.

Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX)’s Major holders

Ardelyx Inc insiders hold 1.88% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 59.70% of the shares at 60.84% float percentage. In total, 59.70% institutions holds shares in the company, led by State Street Corporation. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held over 22.44 million shares (or 10.30% of shares), all amounting to roughly $76.06 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is Janus Henderson Group PLC with 21.83 million shares, or about 10.02% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on Jun 29, 2023, these shares were worth $73.99 million.

We also have SPDR (R) Ser Tr-SPDR (R) S&P (R) Biotech ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) shares. Going by data provided on Aug 30, 2023, SPDR (R) Ser Tr-SPDR (R) S&P (R) Biotech ETF holds roughly 17.61 million shares. This is just over 8.08% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $75.03 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 6.87 million, or 3.15% of the shares, all valued at about 23.28 million.