Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) has a beta value of 0.81 and has seen 1.94 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $173.60M, closed the last trade at $2.45 per share which meant it gained $0.01 on the day or 0.41% during that session. The NKTX stock price is -562.86% off its 52-week high price of $16.24 and 2.86% above the 52-week low of $2.38. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 1.21 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 735.83K shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Nkarta Inc (NKTX) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.00. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 0 out of 8 have rated it as a Hold, with 8 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is -0.4.

Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) trade information

Sporting 0.41% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the NKTX stock price touched $2.45 or saw a rise of 6.49%. Year-to-date, Nkarta Inc shares have moved -62.88%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -3.16%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) have changed -32.69%. Short interest in the company has seen 9.57 million shares shorted with days to cover at 12.64.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $16, which means that the shares’ value could jump 84.69% from current levels. The projected low price target is $15.0 while the price target rests at a high of $36.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -1369.39% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -512.24% from current levels.

Nkarta Inc (NKTX) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Nkarta Inc shares have outperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have lost -61.96% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 19.17%, compared to 18.00% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 0.00%.

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 -209.81% over the past 5 years.

NKTX Dividends

Nkarta Inc is expected to release its next earnings report in December this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX)’s Major holders

Insiders own 4.87% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 98.82% with a share float percentage of 103.88%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Nkarta Inc having a total of 167.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. with over 10.81 million shares worth more than $63.86 million. As of 2024-06-30, RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. held 14.702% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 4.06 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $23.99 million and represent 8.0094% 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 2.58% shares in the company for having 1.82 shares of worth $4.46 million while later fund manager owns 1.39 shares of worth $3.4 million as of Sep 30, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 1.97% of company’s outstanding stock.