In last trading session, Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) saw 1.59 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.22. Company’s recent per share price level of $13.74 trading at $0.45 or 3.39% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.06B. That closing price of LQDA’s stock is at a discount of -23.65% from its 52-week high price of $16.99 and is indicating a premium of 58.44% from its 52-week low price of $5.71. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.05 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 852.79K if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Liquidia Corp (LQDA), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.29. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 4 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.43 in the current quarter.

Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 3.39%, in the last five days LQDA remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 08/14/24 when the stock touched $13.74 price level, adding 1.86% to its value on the day. Liquidia Corp’s shares saw a change of 14.21% in year-to-date performance and have moved 28.65% in past 5-day. Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) showed a performance of 7.09% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 12.87 million shares which calculate 16.3 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 16.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 16.73% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 3 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 23. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 78.17% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 78.17% for stock’s current value.

Liquidia Corp (LQDA) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Liquidia Corp is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -3.98% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -28.93% while that of industry is 17.50. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 71.00% from the last financial year’s standing.

7 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 8.54M for the same. And 7 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 14.82M in the next quarter. Company posted 4.33M and 4.53M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

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 30.44% during past 5 years.

Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 21.32% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 64.98 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 82.59%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 64.98% institutions for Liquidia Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. CALIGAN PARTNERS LP is the top institutional holder at LQDA for having 10.36 million shares of worth $152.82 million. And as of 2024-03-31, it was holding 15.9415 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is PATIENT SQUARE CAPITAL LP, which was holding about 7.18 million shares on 2024-03-31. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 11.0512 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $105.94 million.