Nikola Corp (NASDAQ:NKLA) Lost -25.48% In A Week: What’s Driving The Stock?

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In last trading session, Nikola Corp (NASDAQ:NKLA) saw 9.95 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.99. Company’s recent per share price level of $1.17 trading at -$0.08 or -6.40% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $98.82M. That closing price of NKLA’s stock is at a discount of -2848.72% from its 52-week high price of $34.50 and is indicating a premium of 1.71% from its 52-week low price of $1.15. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 12.68 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 6.70 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Nikola Corp (NKLA), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 3.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 9 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 3 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 5 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -2.06 in the current quarter.

Nikola Corp (NASDAQ:NKLA) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -6.40%, in the last five days NKLA remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 12/13/24 when the stock touched $1.17 price level, adding 25.95% to its value on the day. Nikola Corp’s shares saw a change of -95.54% in year-to-date performance and have moved -25.48% in past 5-day. Nikola Corp (NASDAQ:NKLA) showed a performance of -39.69% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 13.51 million shares which calculate 1.97 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 13 to the stock, which implies a rise of 91.0% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 12 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 14. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -925.64% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -925.64% for stock’s current value.

Nikola Corp (NKLA) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 212.42% from the last financial year’s standing.

3 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 40.86M for the same. And 3 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 56.58M in the next quarter. Company posted 11.53M and 7.5M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Nikola Corp (NASDAQ:NKLA)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 4.05% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 24.63 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 25.67%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 24.63% institutions for Nikola Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. ALPS ADVISORS INC is the top institutional holder at NKLA for having 98904.0 shares of worth $0.81 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 0.0074 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is , which was holding about 16826.0 shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 0.0013 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $10826.0.