Aquestive Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AQST) has a beta value of 2.91 and has seen 0.5 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $362.70M, closed the recent trade at $4.03 per share which meant it lost -$0.04 on the day or -0.95% during that session. The AQST stock price is -54.59% off its 52-week high price of $6.23 and 72.7% above the 52-week low of $1.10. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 3.08 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.26 million shares.
Aquestive Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AQST) trade information
Sporting -0.95% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, when the AQST stock price touched $4.03 or saw a rise of 10.64%. Year-to-date, Aquestive Therapeutics Inc shares have moved 99.57%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.63%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Aquestive Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AQST) have changed -17.39%. Short interest in the company has seen 2.32 million shares shorted with days to cover at 0.7.
Aquestive Therapeutics Inc (AQST) estimates and forecasts
Figures show that Aquestive Therapeutics Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 203.11% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of -169.23%, compared to 9.00% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, lowered its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are -172.70% and 10.00% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 14.60%.
7 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $12.46 million for the current quarter. 7 have an estimated revenue figure of $12.53 million for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024. Year-ago sales stood $11.13 million and $13.24 million respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 11.90% for the current quarter and -5.40% for the next. If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 46.61% over the past 5 years.
AQST Dividends
Aquestive Therapeutics Inc is expected to release its next earnings report between April 30 and May 06 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.
Aquestive Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AQST)’s Major holders
Insiders own 5.03% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 27.93% with a share float percentage of 29.41%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Aquestive Therapeutics Inc having a total of 64 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Bratton Capital Management, LP with over 9.81 million shares worth more than $16.19 million. As of Jun 29, 2023, Bratton Capital Management, LP held 14.70% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is Vanguard Group Inc, with the holding of over 1.56 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $2.57 million and represent 2.34% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 1.40% shares in the company for having 0.93 million shares of worth $1.54 million while later fund manager owns 0.49 million shares of worth $0.81 million as of Jun 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 0.74% of company’s outstanding stock.
