After A 1.04% Jump In The Last Week, Does Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: RNA) Still Make Sense To Buy?

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During the last session, Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA)’s traded shares were 1.58 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.99. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $32.05, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.16% or -$0.05. The 52-week high for the RNA share is $56.00, that puts it down -74.73 from that peak though still a striking 32.73% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $21.56. The company’s market capitalization is $3.85B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.46 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.34 million shares over the past three months.

Avidity Biosciences Inc (RNA) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.07. RNA has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 6 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 1 suggest Overweight, and 5 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be -0.88.

Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA) trade information

Avidity Biosciences Inc (RNA) registered a -0.16% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.16% in intraday trading to $32.05, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.04%, and it has moved by 9.91% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 35.23%. The short interest in Avidity Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ:RNA) is 16.13 million shares and it means that shorts have 12.47 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $54.5, which implies an increase of 41.19% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $50 and $59 respectively. As a result, RNA is trading at a discount of -84.09% off the target high and -56.01% off the low.

Avidity Biosciences Inc (RNA) estimates and forecasts

In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -23.41% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 2.62M as predicted by 8 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 8 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 2.51M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 3.54M and 2.04M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -25.92% and then jump by 22.77% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -34.37%. While earnings are projected to return -32.24% in 2025, the next five years will return 0.06% per annum.

RNA Dividends

Avidity Biosciences Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-26. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

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

Avidity Biosciences Inc insiders own 5.03% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 107.33%, with the float percentage being 113.01%. FMR LLC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 328.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 16.16 million shares (or 15.1121% of all shares), a total value of $660.1 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 10.92 million shares, is of PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/’s that is approximately 12.5173% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $445.94 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Avidity Biosciences Inc (RNA) shares are T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc. owns about 4.43 shares. This amounts to just over 3.68 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $141.91 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.5, or about 2.91% of the stock, which is worth about $112.23 million.