In the last trading session, 1.15 million Cytek BioSciences Inc (NASDAQ:CTKB) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.35. With the company’s per share price at $3.4 changed hands at -$0.15 or -4.23% during last session, the market valuation stood at $430.64M. CTKB’s last price was a discount, traded about -124.41% off its 52-week high of $7.63. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.37, which suggests the last value was 30.29% up since then. When we look at Cytek BioSciences Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.48 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.13 million.
Analysts gave the Cytek BioSciences Inc (CTKB) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.20. 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, 1 recommended CTKB as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Cytek BioSciences Inc (NASDAQ:CTKB) trade information
Instantly CTKB was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 8.97%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -35.85%, with the 5-day performance at 8.97% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Cytek BioSciences Inc (NASDAQ:CTKB) is 31.27% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.09 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.45 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 6.62, meaning bulls need an upside of 48.64% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, CTKB’s forecast low is 5.25 with 8 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -135.29% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -54.41% 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 18.28%. The 2025 estimates are for Cytek BioSciences Inc earnings to decrease by -188.71%.
CTKB Dividends
Cytek BioSciences Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-08.
Cytek BioSciences Inc (NASDAQ:CTKB)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 9.16% of Cytek BioSciences Inc shares while 62.13% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 68.40%. There are 62.13% institutions holding the Cytek BioSciences Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.9872% of the shares, roughly 17.07 million CTKB shares worth $95.25 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.9365% or 11.75 million shares worth $65.54 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Apr 30, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 6.37 shares estimated at $21.65 million under it, the former controlled 5.03% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 2.66% of the shares, roughly 3.37 shares worth around $11.45 million.
