-12.89% Fall Drives Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (RCKT) Into Becoming A Interest-Loosing Stock For Investors

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Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RCKT) has a beta value of 1.00 and has seen 7.68 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $619.52M, closed the last trade at $5.81 per share which meant it lost -$0.86 on the day or -12.89% during that session. The RCKT stock price is -364.54% off its 52-week high price of $26.99 and -7.75% below the 52-week low of $6.26. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.74 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 1.57 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (RCKT) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.12. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 8 have rated it as a Hold, with 7 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is -0.58.

Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RCKT) trade information

Sporting -12.89% in the red in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the RCKT stock price touched $5.81 or saw a rise of 29.23%. Year-to-date, Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc shares have moved -53.78%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -28.89%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RCKT) have changed -33.90%. Short interest in the company has seen 11.05 million shares shorted with days to cover at 8.06.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $35.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 83.63% from current levels. The projected low price target is $32.0 while the price target rests at a high of $39.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -571.26% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -450.77% from current levels.

Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (RCKT) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -68.53% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 0.00%.

10 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 800k for the current quarter. 10 have an estimated revenue figure of 1M for the next ending quarter.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -11.60% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 10.43% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 73.89%.

RCKT Dividends

Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-26 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RCKT)’s Major holders

Insiders own 3.02% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 106.97% with a share float percentage of 110.30%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc having a total of 313.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are RTW INVESTMENTS, LP with over 17.69 million shares worth more than $380.82 million. As of 2024-06-30, RTW INVESTMENTS, LP held 18.8677% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP, with the holding of over 9.16 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $197.12 million and represent 9.7665% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Health Care Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 7.13% shares in the company for having 7.6 shares of worth $44.14 million while later fund manager owns 2.62 shares of worth $15.23 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 2.46% of company’s outstanding stock.