Volatility Is Your Friend: Virpax Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRPX) Is Hot Again

Virpax Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRPX) does about 3.10M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 846055 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 3.71M USD. Its current market price is $0.46, marking a decrease of -0.41% compared to the previous close of $0.46. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $5.48 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.36. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $3 and a low of $3.

Virpax Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRPX) has a 20-day trading average at $0.6261 and the current price is -91.59% off the 52-week high compared with 27.20% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.6260 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.6284. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 34.25%, which decreases to 17.97% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 33.41 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $3.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 84.67% over the period. The median price target is 84.67% away from the current levels at $3.

The current price level is -26.46%, -26.38%, and -71.68% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the VRPX price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Virpax Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRPX) stock is down -21.81% over the week and -35.87% over the past month. Its price is -85.60% year-to-date and -88.21% over the past year.

Its 12-month price target is $3. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 84.67 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $3, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $3.

The company has a return on equity of -594.46%. The beta has a value of 0.92.