In last trading session, Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) saw 0.81 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.85. Company’s recent per share price level of $2.34 trading at -$0.02 or -0.85% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $165.13M. That closing price of NKTX’s stock is at a discount of -594.02% from its 52-week high price of $16.24 and is indicating a premium of 11.11% from its 52-week low price of $2.08. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.23 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.59 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Nkarta Inc (NKTX), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 8 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.4 in the current quarter.
Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.85%, in the last five days NKTX remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 01/27/25 when the stock touched $2.34 price level, adding 9.3% to its value on the day. Nkarta Inc’s shares saw a change of -6.02% in year-to-date performance and have moved -6.02% in past 5-day. Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) showed a performance of 0.86% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 10.05 million shares which calculate 6.95 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 16 to the stock, which implies a rise of 85.38% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 15 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 36. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -541.03% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -541.03% for stock’s current value.
Nkarta Inc (NKTX) estimates and forecasts
Statistics highlight that Nkarta Inc is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -63.61% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 30.00% while that of industry is 16.00. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2025.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -209.81% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 25.06% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 8.66%.
Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 5.26% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 108.96 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 115.01%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 108.96% institutions for Nkarta Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. is the top institutional holder at NKTX for having 10.81 million shares of worth $63.86 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.702 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BOXER CAPITAL, LLC, which was holding about 5.61 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.6296 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $33.14 million.
On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Sep 30, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 1.82 shares of worth $4.26 million or 2.58% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.49 shares on Nov 30, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $3.49 million in the company or a holder of 2.11% of company’s stock.
