In last trading session, Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) saw 7.01 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.80. Company’s recent per share price level of $29.68 trading at $0.56 or 1.92% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $368.24M. That closing price of NKTR’s stock is at a discount of -25.94% from its 52-week high price of $37.38 and is indicating a premium of 78.17% from its 52-week low price of $6.48. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 7.48 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.24 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.75. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 1.92%, in the last five days NKTR remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 06/25/25 when the stock touched $29.68 price level, adding 20.6% to its value on the day. Nektar Therapeutics’s shares saw a change of 69.12% in year-to-date performance and have moved 244.72% in past 5-day. Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) showed a performance of 193.35% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 0.6 million shares which calculate 2.36 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 18.5 to the stock, which implies a fall of -60.43% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 6 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 24. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 79.78% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 79.78% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 25.49% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -19.62% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -16.75%.
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.29% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 67.12 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 68.00%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 67.12% institutions for Nektar Therapeutics that are currently holding shares of the company. DEEP TRACK CAPITAL, LP is the top institutional holder at NKTR for having 17.88 million shares of worth $22.17 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 8.5599 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 15.16 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.2575 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $18.79 million.
