uniQure N.V (NASDAQ: QURE) Stock: Can It Surge Further?

In today’s recent session, 0.75 million shares of the uniQure N.V (NASDAQ:QURE) have been traded, and its beta is 0.48. Most recently the company’s share price was $18.00, and it changed around $0.78 or 4.53% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $877.38M. QURE at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $18.12, offering almost -0.67% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $3.73, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 79.28% since then. We note from uniQure N.V’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.41 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.06 million.

uniQure N.V 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 15 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 3 recommended QURE as a Hold, whereas 9 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. uniQure N.V is expected to report earnings per share of -0.51 for the current quarter.

uniQure N.V (NASDAQ:QURE) trade information

Instantly QURE has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 4.53% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 18.42 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 2.28%. The company’s shares are currently up 165.88% year-to-date, but still up 3.27% over the last five days. On the other hand, uniQure N.V (NASDAQ:QURE) is 201.51% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 4.3 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.05 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $57.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 68.7% from its current value. Analyst projections state that QURE is forecast to be at a low of $34 and a high of $62.

uniQure N.V (QURE) estimates and forecasts

uniQure N.V 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 risen 348.88 percent over the past six months and at a 42.19% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 16.70%. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 156.97%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 11 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 18.44M in revenue for the current quarter. 8 analysts expect uniQure N.V to make 6.33M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 6.16M and 7.87M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 199.12%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -19.65%. Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -22.59%.

uniQure N.V (NASDAQ:QURE)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 9.24% of uniQure N.V shares, and 89.27% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 98.36%. uniQure N.V stock is held by 164.0 institutions, with VESTAL POINT CAPITAL, LP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.8172% of the shares, which is about 4.75 million shares worth $21.28 million.

NANTAHALA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, with 5.4779% or 2.65 million shares worth $11.87 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.