Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: RNA) Stock: Instant Disaster Or Awesome Opportunity?

In the last trading session, 1.22 million shares of the Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA) were traded, and its beta was 0.98. Most recently the company’s share price was $32.10, and it changed around -$1.2 or -3.60% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $3.86B. RNA currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $56.00, offering almost -74.45% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $21.56, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 32.83% since then. We note from Avidity Biosciences Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.46 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.34 million.

Avidity Biosciences Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.07. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 14 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 6 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 0 recommended RNA as a Hold, whereas 8 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.

Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA) trade information

Instantly RNA has showed a red trend with a performance of -3.60% 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 33.79 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 5.0%. The company’s shares are currently up 10.39% year-to-date, but still up 5.31% over the last five days. On the other hand, Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA) is 5.14% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 16.95 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 12.51 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $54.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 41.1% from its current value. Analyst projections state that RNA is forecast to be at a low of $50 and a high of $59.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -34.37%. Avidity Biosciences Inc earnings are expected to increase by -32.24% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 0.06% per year for the next five years.

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Avidity Biosciences Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-26.

Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 5.03% of Avidity Biosciences Inc shares, and 107.33% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 113.01%. Avidity Biosciences Inc stock is held by 328.0 institutions, with FMR LLC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 18.5285% of the shares, which is about 16.16 million shares worth $660.1 million.

PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/, with 12.5173% or 10.92 million shares worth $445.94 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024 . The former held 4.43 shares worth $142.14 million, making up 3.68% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 3.5 shares worth around $112.41 million, which represents about 2.91% of the total shares outstanding.