After A -11.25% Fall This Year Is Vaxart Inc (NASDAQ:VXRT) A Better Buy Than Others?

In last trading session, Vaxart Inc (NASDAQ:VXRT) saw 1.25 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.66. Company’s recent per share price level of $0.68 trading at $0.01 or 0.94% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $154.40M. That closing price of VXRT’s stock is at a discount of -126.47% from its 52-week high price of $1.54 and is indicating a premium of 23.53% from its 52-week low price of $0.52. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.86 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 4.12 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Vaxart Inc (VXRT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.

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Vaxart Inc (NASDAQ:VXRT) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.94%, in the last five days VXRT remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 07/22/24 when the stock touched $0.68 price level, adding 3.02% to its value on the day. Vaxart Inc’s shares saw a change of 18.52% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.69% in past 5-day. Vaxart Inc (NASDAQ:VXRT) showed a performance of -1.64% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 12.38 million shares which calculate 1.9 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 2 to the stock, which implies a rise of 66.0% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 2 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 2. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -194.12% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -194.12% for stock’s current value.

Vaxart Inc (VXRT) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Vaxart Inc is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -15.55% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 3.51% while that of industry is 13.40. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 27.81% during past 5 years.

VXRT Dividends

Vaxart Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report in August and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt.

Vaxart Inc (NASDAQ:VXRT)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 1.08% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 23.02 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 23.27%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 23.02% institutions for Vaxart Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. is the top institutional holder at VXRT for having 15.38 million shares of worth $20.0 million. And as of 2024-03-31, it was holding 10.6233 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 8.45 million shares on 2024-03-31. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 5.8344 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $10.98 million.