In the last trading session, 5.05 million Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 3.20. With the company’s per share price at $6.42 changed hands at -$0.28 or -4.25% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.03B. NVAX’s last price was a discount, traded about -271.65% off its 52-week high of $23.86. The share price had its 52-week low at $4.10, which suggests the last value was 36.14% up since then. When we look at Novavax, Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 6.62 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.14 million.
Analysts gave the Novavax, Inc (NVAX) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.14. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 16 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 6 recommended NVAX as a Hold, 10 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX) trade information
Instantly NVAX was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 2.72%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -20.15%, with the 5-day performance at 2.72% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX) is -8.29% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 41.03 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 7.18 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 22, meaning bulls need an upside of 70.82% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, NVAX’s forecast low is 22 with 22 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -242.68% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -242.68% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 25.88%. The 2025 estimates are for Novavax, Inc earnings to increase by 141.58%.
NVAX Dividends
Novavax, Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-26.
Novavax, Inc (NASDAQ:NVAX)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 8.77% of Novavax, Inc shares while 59.83% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 65.58%. There are 59.83% institutions holding the Novavax, Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.4861% of the shares, roughly 14.08 million NVAX shares worth $178.19 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.984% or 11.85 million shares worth $149.98 million as of 2024-06-30.
