Nektar Therapeutics - NKTR Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Nektar Therapeutics in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings and 3 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" NKTR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in NKTR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Nektar Therapeutics' shares. Their NKTR share price forecasts range from $1.50 to $6.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $3.08 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 231.1% from the stock's current price.
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Nektar Therapeutics' stock was trading at $2.26 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, NKTR shares have decreased by 58.8% and is now trading at $0.9313.
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Nektar Therapeutics saw a decline in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 8,750,000 shares, a decline of 11.8% from the February 13th total of 9,920,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,960,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.5 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 4th 2023.
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Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 28th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.32) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.43) by $0.11. The biopharmaceutical company had revenue of $22.02 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $22.21 million. Nektar Therapeutics had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 76.92% and a negative net margin of 399.98%. The business's revenue was down 11.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($0.79) EPS.

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46 employees have rated Nektar Therapeutics Chief Executive Officer Howard W. Robin on Glassdoor.com. Howard W. Robin has an approval rating of 81% among the company's employees.

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Nektar Therapeutics trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NKTR."

Nektar Therapeutics' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Geode Capital Management LLC (1.83%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.36%), Norges Bank (0.90%), Morgan Stanley (0.87%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.73%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.63%). Insiders that own company stock include Curet Myriam, Gil M Labrucherie, Gil M Labrucherie, Howard W Robin, Howard W Robin, Jeffrey Robert Ajer, Jillian B Thomsen, Jillian B Thomsen, John Northcott, Jonathan Zalevsky, Karin Eastham, Mark Andrew Wilson, Myriam Curet, R Scott Greer and Robert Chess.
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Shares of NKTR stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of NKTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $0.93.

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) has a market capitalization of $176.24 million and generates $92.06 million in revenue each year. The biopharmaceutical company earns $-368,200,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.97) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 740 workers across the globe.

Nektar Therapeutics' mailing address is 455 MISSION BAY BOULEVARD SOUTH, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94158. The official website for the company is www.nektar.com. The biopharmaceutical company can be reached via phone at (415) 482-5300, via email at investors@nektar.com, or via fax at 415-339-5300.