In the last trading session, 2.3 million Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.01. With the company’s per share price at $12.46 changed hands at -$0.64 or -4.89% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1.07B. LQDA’s last price was a discount, traded about -55.78% off its 52-week high of $19.41. The share price had its 52-week low at $8.26, which suggests the last value was 33.71% up since then. When we look at Liquidia Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 2.07 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.00 million.
Analysts gave the Liquidia Corp (LQDA) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.40. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended LQDA as a Hold, 4 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) trade information
Instantly LQDA was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -6.03%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 1.14%, with the 5-day performance at -6.03% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA) is -16.93% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 19.5 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 6.69 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 19, meaning bulls need an upside of 34.42% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LQDA’s forecast low is 13 with 36 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -188.92% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -4.33% 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 8.44%. The 2025 estimates are for Liquidia Corp earnings to increase by 7.31%.
LQDA Dividends
Liquidia Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-08.
Liquidia Corp (NASDAQ:LQDA)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 13.64% of Liquidia Corp shares while 65.04% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 75.32%. There are 65.04% institutions holding the Liquidia Corp stock share, with CALIGAN PARTNERS LP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 13.5551% of the shares, roughly 10.36 million LQDA shares worth $124.33 million.
PATIENT SQUARE CAPITAL LP holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 9.3968% or 7.18 million shares worth $86.19 million as of 2024-06-30.
