In today’s recent session, 0.59 million shares of the Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) have been traded, and its beta is 0.04. Most recently the company’s share price was $15.15, and it changed around -$0.2 or -1.27% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $1.30B. LQDA at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $19.41, offering almost -28.12% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $8.26, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 45.48% since then. We note from Liquidia Corp’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 2.21 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.33 million.
Liquidia Corp stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.40. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 11 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended LQDA as a Hold, whereas 6 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) trade information
Instantly LQDA has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.27% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 17.88 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 15.27%. The company’s shares are currently up 28.87% year-to-date, but still down -11.01% over the last five days. On the other hand, Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) is 7.33% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 13.54 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 10.79 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $19, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 20.26% from its current value. Analyst projections state that LQDA is forecast to be at a low of $13 and a high of $36.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 8.44%.
LQDA Dividends
Liquidia Corp’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-May-07.
Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 13.48% of Liquidia Corp shares, and 65.03% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 75.16%. Liquidia Corp stock is held by 227.0 institutions, with CALIGAN PARTNERS LP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 13.5551% of the shares, which is about 10.36 million shares worth $124.33 million.
PATIENT SQUARE CAPITAL LP, with 9.3968% or 7.18 million shares worth $86.19 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024 . The former held 1.99 shares worth $29.93 million, making up 2.33% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Russell 2000 ETF held roughly 1.66 shares worth around $24.99 million, which represents about 1.95% of the total shares outstanding.
