During the last session, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE)’s traded shares were 2.93 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.98. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $3.05, reflecting an intraday gain of 4.81% or $0.14. The 52-week high for the SPCE share is $8.32, that puts it down -172.79 from that peak though still a striking 28.52% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.18. The company’s market capitalization is $126.80M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 2.68 million shares, and the average trade volume was 5.10 million shares over the past three months.
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.57. SPCE has a Sell rating from 2 analyst(s) out of 9 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) trade information
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE) registered a 4.81% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 4.81% in intraday trading to $3.05, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 7.77%, and it has moved by -12.86% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -48.13%. The short interest in Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) is 12.86 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.22 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $4, which implies an increase of 23.75% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $4 and $4 respectively. As a result, SPCE is trading at a discount of -31.15% off the target high and -31.15% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 8.53%. While earnings are projected to return 30.30% in 2025, the next five years will return 52.97% per annum.
SPCE Dividends
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-15. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE)’s Major holders
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc insiders own 4.39% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 26.80%, with the float percentage being 28.03%. WOLVERINE ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 208.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 6.6 million shares (or 30.7247% of all shares), a total value of $55.65 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 3.87 million shares, is of PORTMAN SQUARE CAPITAL LLP’s that is approximately 18.0106% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $1.63 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE) shares are Federated Hermes MDT Series-Federated Hermes MDT Small Cap Core Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Apr 30, 2025 indicates that Federated Hermes MDT Series-Federated Hermes MDT Small Cap Core Fund owns about 1.47 shares. This amounts to just over 3.54 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $4.49 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 778.43, or about 1.87% of the stock, which is worth about $2.37 million.
