VKTXViking Therapeutics Inc.
+1.9% today · −27.4% over a year
No score: too little data.
Priced higher than most peers. No dividend.
Viking Therapeutics Inc. (VKTX) belongs to the Health care sector and is listed on Nasdaq; country: United States. Its market value is about €2.7B. Over the past 12 months the price changed by −27.4%, with an annualised volatility of 66% and a largest fall of 43%. Hard red flags in our rules-based screen: Heavy dilution.
Smart Score
How it is scored →Not scored: not enough data for a fair comparison.
Factor scores
Percentiles within the peer group (100 = the best of its peers); dividend safety in points.
Main drivers
- Return on assetsweighs on the score · better than 3% of peers
- Piotroski F-scoreweighs on the score · better than 4% of peers
- Return on invested capitalweighs on the score · better than 8% of peers
Red flags and notes
- Serious warning. Share count growing more than 10 % a year over three years. More in the glossary → Share count growing more than 10 % a year over three years.
Price chart
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Key metrics
Valuation
- P/B
- 7.2
- Market cap (EUR)
- €2.7B
Profitability and debt
- Return on equity
- −88.9%
- Return on invested capital
- −107.3%
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Years of dividend growth
- 0
Returns and risk
- 1 day
- +1.9%
- 1 month
- −23.2%
- 1 year
- −27.4%
- Volatility, 1 yr
- 66.2%
- Max drawdown, 1 yr
- −42.5%
- Beta
- 1.05
Ratios from SEC filings and end-of-day prices; returns are price changes without dividends.
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News and filings
- Viking Therapeutics, Inc.: 8-K — Results of operations
A filing (SEC EDGAR) or an exchange notice (Moscow Exchange): the issuer's or the exchange's own statement.SEC EDGAR · Filing · 28 Oct 2026
- Viking Therapeutics, Inc.: 8-K — Material agreement; new financial obligation
A filing (SEC EDGAR) or an exchange notice (Moscow Exchange): the issuer's or the exchange's own statement.SEC EDGAR · Filing · 28 Sep 2026
- Viking Therapeutics, Inc.: 8-K — Other events
A filing (SEC EDGAR) or an exchange notice (Moscow Exchange): the issuer's or the exchange's own statement.SEC EDGAR · Filing · 22 Sep 2026
What the marks mean
- FactA filing (SEC EDGAR) or an exchange notice (Moscow Exchange): the issuer's or the exchange's own statement.
- Media reportA headline from a named media outlet. We link to it and do not check it.
- RumourUnconfirmed: the headline itself hedges (“reportedly”, “sources say”, “in talks”), names no publisher, or comes from a news aggregator or an automated republisher.
Source: Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR. The tone is scored automatically from the headline and can be wrong.
Score changes in the last 12 months
Every published rating and change, logged when it was published (EU Market Abuse Regulation).
Show the log: 1 entry
| Date | Event | Balanced | Growth · Income | Warnings | Price at publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First rating | —/10 | — · — | Available with Invest Pro |
Ratings are rules-based descriptions, valid until the next scoring run (about 06:20 and 21:50 UTC) and the same for every visitor.
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