Is Viridian Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: VRDN) Worth Your Money In 2024?

In the last trading session, 2.23 million shares of the Viridian Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VRDN) were traded, and its beta was 1.02. Most recently the company’s share price was $21.56, and it changed around -$0.5 or -2.27% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $1.38B. VRDN currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $24.18, offering almost -12.15% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $10.93, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 49.3% since then. We note from Viridian Therapeutics Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 3.97 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.44 million.

Viridian Therapeutics Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.12. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 17 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 7 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended VRDN as a Hold, whereas 8 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Viridian Therapeutics Inc is expected to report earnings per share of -1.05 for the current quarter.

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Viridian Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VRDN) trade information

Instantly VRDN has showed a red trend with a performance of -2.27% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 23.80 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 9.41%. The company’s shares are currently down -1.01% year-to-date, but still up 51.94% over the last five days. On the other hand, Viridian Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VRDN) is 44.50% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 8.03 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 10.29 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $39, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 44.72% from its current value. Analyst projections state that VRDN is forecast to be at a low of $22 and a high of $56.

Viridian Therapeutics Inc (VRDN) estimates and forecasts

Viridian Therapeutics Inc share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 26.16 percent over the past six months and at a 25.99% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 17.20%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will gain 3.70% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 23.70% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -10.80%, down from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 13 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 50k in revenue for the current quarter. 13 analysts expect Viridian Therapeutics Inc to make 50k in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 72k and 72k respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -30.60%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -30.60%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 20.35%.

VRDN Dividends

Viridian Therapeutics Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in October.

Viridian Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VRDN)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.01% of Viridian Therapeutics Inc shares, and 92.94% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 92.95%. Viridian Therapeutics Inc stock is held by 204.0 institutions, with FMR LLC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 15.6686% of the shares, which is about 9.57 million shares worth $124.55 million.

BLACKROCK INC., with 7.8129% or 4.77 million shares worth $62.1 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.