Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp (NASDAQ: ADPT) Surprises The Bears, Looks Good Going Forward

In the last trading session, 1.78 million shares of the Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp (NASDAQ:ADPT) were traded, and its beta was 1.55. Most recently the company’s share price was $7.80, and it changed around $0.12 or 1.56% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $1.15B. ADPT currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $8.33, offering almost -6.79% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $2.28, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 70.77% since then. We note from Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.23 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.39 million.

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.50. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended ADPT as a Hold, whereas 3 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp is expected to report earnings per share of -0.27 for the current quarter.

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp (NASDAQ:ADPT) trade information

Instantly ADPT has showed a green trend with a performance of 1.56% 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 8.31 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 6.14%. The company’s shares are currently up 30.11% year-to-date, but still up 5.83% over the last five days. On the other hand, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp (NASDAQ:ADPT) is 20.00% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 8.53 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 5.77 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $14, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 44.29% from its current value. Analyst projections state that ADPT is forecast to be at a low of $5 and a high of $18.

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp (ADPT) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 17.45%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 7 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 46.28M in revenue for the current quarter. 6 analysts expect Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp to make 51.05M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 41.87M and 43.19M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 10.53%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 18.20%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -32.91%. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp earnings are expected to increase by 13.54% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 36.24% per year for the next five years.

ADPT Dividends

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March.

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp (NASDAQ:ADPT)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 1.93% of Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp shares, and 89.33% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 91.09%. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp stock is held by 259.0 institutions, with VIKING GLOBAL INVESTORS LP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 20.5736% of the shares, which is about 29.99 million shares worth $108.58 million.

RUBRIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP, with 9.603% or 14.0 million shares worth $50.68 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

ARK ETF Tr-ARK Genomic Revolution ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024. The former held 9.3 shares worth $72.52 million, making up 6.30% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 4.19 shares worth around $32.7 million, which represents about 2.84% of the total shares outstanding.