Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX)’s traded shares stood at 4.53 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.61. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $3.99, to imply a decrease of -4.55% or -$0.19 in intraday trading. The ARDX share’s 52-week high remains $8.06, putting it -102.01% down since that peak but still an impressive 19.55% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $3.21. The company has a valuation of $954.63M, with an average of 5.89 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 5.31 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Ardelyx Inc (ARDX), translating to a mean rating of 1.42. Of 8 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give ARDX a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 7 recommend it as a Buy.
Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX) trade information
After registering a -4.55% downside in the last session, Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 21.65%, and -17.05% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -21.30%. Short interest in Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX) saw shorts transact 29.82 million shares and set a 5.55 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $8 and $14 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, ARDX has been trading -250.88% off suggested target high and -100.5% from its likely low.
ARDX Dividends
Ardelyx Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-30. 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.
Ardelyx Inc (NASDAQ:ARDX)’s Major holders
Ardelyx Inc insiders hold 2.22% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 69.82% of the shares at 71.40% float percentage. In total, 69.82% institutions holds shares in the company, led by JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 25.95 million shares (or 11.0625% of shares), all amounting to roughly $192.14 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 17.55 million shares, or about 7.4828% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $130.06 million.
We also have Delaware Group Equity Funds V-Macquarie Small Cap Core Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Ardelyx Inc (ARDX) shares. Going by data provided on Feb 28, 2025 , Delaware Group Equity Funds V-Macquarie Small Cap Core Fund holds roughly 8.87 shares. This is just over 3.71% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $35.4 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 7.05, or 2.95% of the shares, all valued at about 28.11 million.
