Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) closed at $25.17 on October 16, 2026, down 8.0% from the previous close, on volume of 7,267,271 shares (30-day average 6,962,232).
Data as of October 16, 2026.
Canaccord Genuity Reaffirms Their Buy Rating on Viking Therapeutics (VKTX)
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H.C. Wainwright Keeps Their Buy Rating on Viking Therapeutics (VKTX)
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Kuehn Law Encourages Investors of Viking Therapeutics, Inc. to Contact Law Firm
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Viking Therapeutics maps out $400 million financing plan to advance VK2735 and VK3019
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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, and 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 October 16, 2026, VKTX stock price declined to $25.17 with 7,267,271 million shares trading.
VKTX has a beta of 1.07, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. VKTX has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.
VKTX has a market cap of $3.16 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, VKTX traded as high as $99.41 and as low as $8.28.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that VKTX belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, XBI, VB, VBK, VXF.
VKTX has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -28.3% while the SPY ETF gained +15.9%. VKTX has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -33.4% and -17.5%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.4% and -0.1%, respectively.
VKTX support price is $26.04 and resistance is $28.71 (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.
