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Viking Therapeutics, Inc.VKTX

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Buy more on a dip to our buy price, which is under today's $28.

  • 1 good· Room to target
  • 4 to watch· Earnings miss

$27.66−0.78 (−2.74%)

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NASDAQ · Healthcare · Biotechnology · Mid-size company

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What would change it

Sources
  • Yahoo Finance daily closes to Nov 11

Any one could move it to Keep

Compared with the S&P 500

  • 24 points

    worse in one day

  • 54 points

    worse in five trading days

−31.9% in a year

Earnings report

The news behind our call

written Oct 21, 10:32 AM ETOct 21, 10:32 AM ET · 13 articles · 7 sources

What changed

From Yahoo Finance, Eli Lilly and Company via Nasdaq, Viking Therapeutics, Inc. via Nasdaq and 2 more

Viking Therapeutics announced two Poster Presentations at ObesityWeek® 2026 on Nov 9.

  1. Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) heads to two Conferences, is the discount to analyst targets warranted?

    Today

  2. Is Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) priced for perfection after ObesityWeek?

    Yesterday

  3. Eli Lilly just raised its 2026 sales forecast to as much as $92 billion. But is Viking Therapeutics the next big Obesity Winner?

    Yesterday

  4. Viking Therapeutics announces two Poster Presentations at ObesityWeek® 2026

    Monday

  5. Viking aims to enter the weight loss drug market.

    Nov 4

  6. Viking Therapeutics to Participate at upcoming investor Conferences

    Nov 3

  7. Analyst ratings shifted: 1 more buy

    19 buy, 2 hold, 0 sell, against 18 buy, 2 hold, 0 sell the month before.

    Analysts · Last month

  8. VKTX: Is a 2029 launch for its Obesity Drug within reach?

    Oct 30

Overview

What it does

NASDAQ · US

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. tracked for oral and injectable metabolic, obesity, and liver-disease pipeline research.

  • It burned $462.6M of free cash in the last twelve months.
  • It holds $959.8M in cash and investments against $254.7M of debt, which leaves $705.1M of net cash.

Key figures

Net income
−$627M
EPS (diluted)
−$5.41
Return on equity
-96.4%
Return on capital
-52.1%
Debt / equity
0.43
Current ratio
7.27
Buyback yield
-3.55%

Key facts

Company value
$3.4B
Today's range
27.5028.56
Past year's range
24.2142.13
Yesterday's close
$28.44

Why it moved

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