Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc Stock Forecast 2024: Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc Is Weak With -560.25% Downside

In the last trading session, 2.44 million Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.73. With the company’s per share price at $7.27 changed hands at -$0.44 or -5.71% during last session, the market valuation stood at $207.05M. SPCE’s last price was a discount, traded about -651.03% off its 52-week high of $54.60. The share price had its 52-week low at $5.26, which suggests the last value was 27.65% up since then. When we look at Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.27 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.43 million.

Analysts gave the Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.10. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 2 out of 9 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 4 recommended SPCE as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -4.09.

3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.

We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.

Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) trade information

Instantly SPCE was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 10.32%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -85.16%, with the 5-day performance at 10.32% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) is 15.76% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.14 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 5.58 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 10, meaning bulls need an upside of 27.3% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, SPCE’s forecast low is 3 with 48 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -560.25% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 58.73% for it to hit the projected low.

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot -51.66% over the past 6 months, a 36.42% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 11.10%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -6.20% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 7 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 2.06M. 7 analysts are of the opinion that Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 2M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.73M and 2.81M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 19.20%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -28.80%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -15.86%. The 2024 estimates are for Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc earnings to increase by 40.44%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 19.40% per year.

SPCE Dividends

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in November.

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 5.91% of Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc shares while 27.36% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 29.08%. There are 27.36% institutions holding the Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc stock share, with BREVAN HOWARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 0.0038% of the shares, roughly 15249.0 SPCE shares worth $0.13 million.

IFP ADVISORS, INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.0001% or 430.0 shares worth $294.0 as of 2024-06-30.