Akoya Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: AKYA) Defies Bearish Expectations and Displays Strong Future Potential

In the last trading session, 82805.0 Akoya Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:AKYA) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.19. With the company’s per share price at $2.41 changed hands at $0.05 or 2.12% during last session, the market valuation stood at $119.45M. AKYA’s last price was a discount, traded about -161.83% off its 52-week high of $6.31. The share price had its 52-week low at $1.88, which suggests the last value was 21.99% up since then. When we look at Akoya Biosciences Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.7 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 231.36K.

Analysts gave the Akoya Biosciences Inc (AKYA) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.25. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended AKYA as a Hold, 5 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Akoya Biosciences Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.16.

Akoya Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:AKYA) trade information

Instantly AKYA was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -5.12%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -50.61%, with the 5-day performance at -5.12% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Akoya Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:AKYA) is 14.22% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 1.6 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 13.43 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 3.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 31.14% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, AKYA’s forecast low is 3 with 4 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -65.98% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -24.48% for it to hit the projected low.

Akoya Biosciences Inc (AKYA) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Akoya Biosciences 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 -6.59% over the past 6 months, a 22.38% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 16.70%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -15.24% 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 21.47M. 6 analysts are of the opinion that Akoya Biosciences Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 19.98M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 26.49M and 18.35M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -18.93%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 8.87%.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -37.60%. The 2024 estimates are for Akoya Biosciences Inc earnings to increase by 23.43%.

AKYA Dividends

Akoya Biosciences Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in January.

Akoya Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:AKYA)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 11.09% of Akoya Biosciences Inc shares while 70.19% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 78.94%. There are 70.19% institutions holding the Akoya Biosciences Inc stock share, with BLUE WATER LIFE SCIENCE ADVISORS, LP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.5506% of the shares, roughly 4.7 million AKYA shares worth $10.99 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 3.0534% or 1.5 million shares worth $3.51 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . With 882.32 shares estimated at $2.13 million under it, the former controlled 1.78% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 1.31% of the shares, roughly 649.39 shares worth around $1.57 million.