The S&P 500 stays close to file ranges because the markets have been robust this yr. Discovering good shares to purchase in such a sizzling market could be difficult. However a couple of development shares with a number of potential, primarily based on their value targets from Wall Avenue, are Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) and Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT). Here is how excessive they might go, based on Wall Avenue, and whether or not these are slam-dunk buys for traders.
Viking Therapeutics: 99% upside
Analysts see Viking probably doubling in worth over the course of the following 12 months; it has a consensus value goal of greater than $112. Analysts have typically been bullish on the pharmaceutical firm, setting purchase scores for Viking just lately.
That optimism stems from the hopes analysts and traders have for VK2735, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) therapy that has been demonstrating encouraging ends in medical trials. The potential for the drug to take market share in a $100 billion anti-obesity market has made Viking a beautiful speculative funding with a whole lot of potential upside.
The corporate generates no income right this moment and has no accredited merchandise. For small pharma shares, acquiring approval for a product can ship shares parabolic. When you additionally contemplate the dimensions of the GLP-1 weight reduction market, then there’s much more motive for traders to be optimistic that if VK2735 obtains approval, shares of Viking might certainly take off.
VK2735 has proven in a section 2 trial that it might probably assist folks lose roughly 15% of their physique weight whereas additionally being protected. Along with that, the corporate additionally has a tablet model of the drug, and members in a section 1 trial misplaced 5% of their physique weight after simply 4 weeks of use.
If one or each of these therapies receive approval from regulators, that would drive a whole lot of bullishness in Viking’s inventory. The one drawback is that is not a assure. Till section 3 trials happen they usually, too, present robust outcomes, there’s nonetheless a good bit of threat right here, particularly with the inventory buying and selling at a reasonably sizable $6 billion market cap.
Whereas there could possibly be vital returns to be made with Viking’s inventory, traders ought to tread rigorously as an underwhelming trial might ship the inventory crashing.
Riot Platforms: 80% upside
The consensus value goal for crypto mining inventory Riot Platforms is a bit of below $18, which suggests this struggling inventory might rise by as much as 80% from the place it’s right this moment. That is at the same time as three of the previous 4 analysts who’ve set value targets have lowered their expectations for Riot.
Riot is a Bitcoin mining firm and so a whole lot of its success will rely on the value of the cryptocurrency. However as the value of the cryptocurrency has risen greater than 60% this yr, Riot’s inventory is down 36%. Earlier this yr, there was a Bitcoin halving occasion that reduce the rewards for Bitcoin miners in half. And whereas previously that has led to a rising value of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency hasn’t taken off since then. And not using a corresponding improve within the digital foreign money to offset the consequences of halving, traders have develop into bearish on Riot’s inventory.
That is at the same time as the corporate just lately posted a file revenue of $211.8 million in its newest quarterly outcomes, for the interval ending March 31. Buyers know, nevertheless, that these earnings will not be sustainable as loads relies on the value of crypto and Riot’s earnings could be uneven. In two of the previous 4 quarters, the corporate has incurred a web loss.
Riot is seeking to bolster its manufacturing capabilities and has been making an attempt to amass Bitfarms to “create the world’s largest publicly listed Bitcoin miner.” To date, it hasn’t been profitable, however its stake within the Bitcoin miner is now as much as round 12% because it has been shopping for up shares of the corporate.
There’s a whole lot of potential upside for Riot particularly as its manufacturing capability will increase, nevertheless it’s nonetheless going to rely largely on the place Bitcoin’s valuation goes. In consequence, this can be a extremely speculative and dangerous inventory to be holding, and it is one other funding that traders must be cautious with, as an enormous a part of the engaging upside it possesses (per Wall Avenue) has to do with the inventory’s latest struggles and the decrease valuation that Riot is at right this moment.
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