Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) has a beta value of 2.04 and has seen 1.06 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $2.05B, closed the recent trade at $12.82 per share which meant it lost -$0.09 on the day or -0.66% during that session. The NVAX stock price is -86.12% off its 52-week high price of $23.86 and 72.46% above the 52-week low of $3.53. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 6.28 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 6.95 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Novavax, Inc. (NVAX) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.60. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 6 out of 16 have rated it as a Hold, with 10 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is -0.89.
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Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) trade information
Sporting -0.66% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the NVAX stock price touched $12.82 or saw a rise of 7.77%. Year-to-date, Novavax, Inc. shares have moved 167.19%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.84%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) have changed 7.23%. Short interest in the company has seen 31.61 million shares shorted with days to cover at 5.17.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $31, which means that the shares’ value could jump 58.65% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $19.0 while the price target rests at a high of $174.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -1257.25% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -48.21% from the levels at last check today.
Novavax, Inc. (NVAX) estimates and forecasts
Figures show that Novavax, Inc. shares have outperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 172.87% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 80.78%, compared to 17.30% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -24.80%.
4 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 67.02M for the current quarter. 4 have an estimated revenue figure of 163.55M for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 186.99M and 291.34M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -64.20% for the current quarter and -24.80% 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 11.55% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 81.70% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 37.90%.
NVAX Dividends
Novavax, Inc. is expected to release its next earnings report on 2024-Nov-07 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.
Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX)’s Major holders
Insiders own 4.38% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 53.76% with a share float percentage of 56.22%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Novavax, Inc. having a total of 309.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 14.08 million shares worth more than $178.19 million. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 10.0599% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 11.85 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $149.98 million and represent 8.4669% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. As of Jun 30, 2024, the former fund manager holds about 2.66% shares in the company for having 4.25 shares of worth $54.55 million while later fund manager owns 3.81 shares of worth $48.83 million as of Aug 31, 2024, which makes it owner of about 2.38% of company’s outstanding stock.
