A Business Review Of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: IRWD) And Growth Forecast

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In the last trading session, 2.6 million shares of the Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IRWD) were traded, and its beta was 0.40. Most recently the company’s share price was $3.98, and it changed around $0.55 or 16.03% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $654.08M. IRWD currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $15.70, offering almost -294.47% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $3.06, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 23.12% since then. We note from Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.7 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.59 million.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.33. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 6 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended IRWD as a Hold, whereas 3 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.

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Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IRWD) trade information

Instantly IRWD has showed a green trend with a performance of 16.03% 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 4.05 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.73%. The company’s shares are currently down -65.21% year-to-date, but still up 9.94% over the last five days. On the other hand, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IRWD) is -14.59% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 8.57 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 6.44 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $8.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 53.18% from its current value. Analyst projections state that IRWD is forecast to be at a low of $5 and a high of $12.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (IRWD) estimates and forecasts

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals 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 fallen -39.14 percent over the past six months and at a 101.28% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 16.80%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -28.37%.

IRWD Dividends

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in January.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IRWD)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 1.68% of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc shares, and 105.28% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 107.08%. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc stock is held by 319.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 14.5067% of the shares, which is about 22.88 million shares worth $149.16 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 13.6737% or 21.56 million shares worth $140.59 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.