Is Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ: NVAX) Worth Much? What Should Investors Do?

During the recent session, Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX)’s traded shares were 1.31 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.09. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $9.64, reflecting an intraday gain of 0.28% or $0.03. The 52-week high for the NVAX share is $23.86, that puts it down -147.51 from that peak though still a striking 63.38% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $3.53. The company’s market capitalization is $1.54B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 4.46 million shares, and the average trade volume was 6.17 million shares over the past three months.

Novavax, Inc (NVAX) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.60. NVAX has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 16 analysts who have looked at this stock. 6 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 10 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.83.

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Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX) trade information

Novavax, Inc (NVAX) registered a 0.28% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 0.28% in intraday trading to $9.64, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.11%, and it has moved by -33.17% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 37.66%. The short interest in Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX) is 35.72 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.59 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $22, which implies an increase of 56.18% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $14 and $174 respectively. As a result, NVAX is trading at a discount of -1704.98% off the target high and -45.23% off the low.

Novavax, Inc (NVAX) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Novavax, Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Novavax, Inc (NVAX) shares have gone up 95.47% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 83.36% against 17.10. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to grow 34.10% this quarter and then jump 87.50% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -22.60% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 65.77M as predicted by 4 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 4 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 192.07M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 186.99M and 291.34M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -64.80% and then drop by -34.10% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 11.55%. While earnings are projected to return 81.38% in 2024, the next five years will return 37.90% per annum.

NVAX Dividends

Novavax, Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2024-Nov-07. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX)’s Major holders

Novavax, Inc insiders own 4.38% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 54.18%, with the float percentage being 56.66%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 307.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 14.08 million shares (or 10.0599% of all shares), a total value of $178.19 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 11.85 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 8.4669% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $149.98 million.