Viking Holdings Ltd (NYSE: VIK) Up 33.87% From 52-Week Low; YTD Falls -11.76% – Here’s What To Do Now

Viking Holdings Ltd (NYSE:VIK)’s traded shares stood at 3.85 million during the last session. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $38.88, to imply a decrease of -2.73% or -$1.09 in intraday trading. The VIK share’s 52-week high remains $53.14, putting it -36.68% down since that peak but still an impressive 33.87% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $25.71. The company has a valuation of $17.21B, with an average of 4.78 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 3.17 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Viking Holdings Ltd (VIK), translating to a mean rating of 1.62. Of 7 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give VIK a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 6 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.3.

Viking Holdings Ltd (NYSE:VIK) trade information

After registering a -2.73% downside in the latest session, Viking Holdings Ltd (VIK) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -3.79%, and -21.97% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -11.76%. Short interest in Viking Holdings Ltd (NYSE:VIK) saw shorts transact 9.42 million shares and set a 2.88 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $46 and $55 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, VIK has been trading -41.46% off suggested target high and -18.31% from its likely low.

Viking Holdings Ltd (VIK) estimates and forecasts

The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 13.63% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 9 analysts is 843.18M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 9 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 1.84B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 718.15M and 1.59B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 17.41% before jumping 15.99% in the following quarter.

VIK Dividends

Viking Holdings Ltd has its next earnings report out on 2025-Mar-10. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Viking Holdings Ltd (NYSE:VIK)’s Major holders

Viking Holdings Ltd insiders hold 0.89% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 98.60% of the shares at 99.49% float percentage. In total, 98.60% institutions holds shares in the company, led by CANADA PENSION PLAN INVESTMENT BOARD. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 60.81 million shares (or 16.6699% of shares), all amounting to roughly $2.06 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is TPG GP A, LLC with 60.81 million shares, or about 16.6699% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $2.06 billion.

We also have Federated Hermes Kaufmann Fund and AMCAP FUND as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Viking Holdings Ltd (VIK) shares. Going by data provided on Oct 31, 2024, Federated Hermes Kaufmann Fund holds roughly 865.0 shares. This is just over 0.00% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $33.73 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 6.37, or 0.00% of the shares, all valued at about 248.3 million.