In last trading session, Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) saw 1.03 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.73. Company’s recent per share price level of $1.73 trading at -$0.05 or -2.81% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $122.75M. That closing price of NKTX’s stock is at a discount of -375.72% from its 52-week high price of $8.23 and is indicating a premium of 24.28% from its 52-week low price of $1.31. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.5 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.12 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Nkarta Inc (NKTX), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.29. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 8 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -2.81%, in the last five days NKTX remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 06/25/25 when the stock touched $1.73 price level, adding 5.72% to its value on the day. Nkarta Inc’s shares saw a change of -69.11% in year-to-date performance and have moved -4.95% in past 5-day. Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX) showed a performance of -0.57% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 7.25 million shares which calculate 16.23 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 16 to the stock, which implies a rise of 89.19% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 15 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 36. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -767.05% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -767.05% 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 -19.86% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 10.68% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -0.26%.
Nkarta Inc (NASDAQ:NKTX)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 5.02% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 91.72 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 96.57%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 91.72% institutions for Nkarta Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P. is the top institutional holder at NKTX for having 10.81 million shares of worth $63.86 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 14.702 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BOXER CAPITAL, LLC, which was holding about 5.61 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.6296 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $33.14 million.
On the other hand, WASATCH FUNDS TRUST-Wasatch Ultra Growth Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 1.85 shares of worth $3.2 million or 2.61% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.45 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $2.51 million in the company or a holder of 2.05% of company’s stock.
