Atyr Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:ATYR) price on Wednesday, May 21, rose 7.45% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $3.75.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $3.49, moving within a range at $3.435 and $3.845. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.792. Turning to its 52-week performance, $4.66 and $1.42 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ATYR moved 8.07% over the past month.
Atyr Pharma Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $333.77 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-06.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ATYR is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
ATYR’s current price about 11.97% and 13.44% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 61.86, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.05% and 7.84% in the 30-day chart. Further, Atyr Pharma Inc (ATYR) has a beta value of 0.77, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.27.
If we refocus on Atyr Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:ATYR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.41 over the past 10 days and 1.48 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 89.00 million shares.
The 3.31% of Atyr Pharma Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 70.08% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 11.69 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 8.75. The data shows that as of 2025-04-30 short interest in Atyr Pharma Inc (ATYR) stood at 1605.9999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 8.32 million registered in 2025-03-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.59% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ATYR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
