Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: INO) Up 4.92% YTD: Any Troubles Ahead?

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:INO)’s traded shares stood at 0.43 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.35. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $1.92, to imply an increase of 1.59% or $0.03 in intraday trading. The INO share’s 52-week high remains $13.44, putting it -600.0% down since that peak but still an impressive 26.04% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $1.42. The company has a valuation of $70.41M, with an average of 0.46 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 679.47K shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (INO), translating to a mean rating of 2.00. Of 3 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give INO a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:INO) trade information

After registering a 1.59% upside in the last session, Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (INO) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 2.67%, and 15.66% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 4.92%. Short interest in Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:INO) saw shorts transact 6.68 million shares and set a 7.87 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $8 and $40 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, INO has been trading -1983.33% off suggested target high and -316.67% from its likely low.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 22.92% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 40.80% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 33.58% annually.

INO Dividends

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Mar-17. 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.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:INO)’s Major holders

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc insiders hold 0.68% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 37.75% of the shares at 38.01% float percentage. In total, 37.75% institutions holds shares in the company, led by DEEP TRACK CAPITAL, LP. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 2.07 million shares (or 7.5988% of shares), all amounting to roughly $16.7 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 1.71 million shares, or about 6.2741% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $13.79 million.

We also have iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc (INO) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF holds roughly 896.84 shares. This is just over 2.45% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.72 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 818.82, or 2.23% of the shares, all valued at about 1.57 million.