VKTX Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Viking Therapeutics | NASDAQ:VKTX)

Viking Therapeutics Inc is a healthcare service provider. The company specializes in the area of biopharmaceutical development focused on metabolic and endocrine disorders. The company's clinical program pipeline consists of VK2809, VK5211, VK0214 products. VK2809 and VK0214 are orally available, tissue and receptor-subtype selective agonists of the thyroid hormone receptor beta. VK5211 is an orally available, non-steroidal selective androgen receptor modulator.

Viking Therapeutics trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol VKTX.

As of January 27, 2025, VKTX stock price declined to $33.05 with 181,301 million shares trading.

VKTX has a beta of 2.76, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. VKTX has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VKTX has a market cap of $3.68 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VKTX traded as high as $99.41 and as low as $2.02.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that VKTX belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VB, XBI, VXF, VBK.

VKTX has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +54.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +24.5%. However, in the most recent history, VKTX shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -54.9% in the last 3 month period and -15.9% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +3.5% and +2.9%, respectively.

VKTX support price is $33.00 and resistance is $36.00 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that VKTX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.