SWAV Stock Plummets – What's Behind the Fall?

This evening we watched ShockWave Medical drop -8.2% to a price of $204.19 per share. The mid-cap Medical Instruments & Supplies company is now trading -28.33% below its average target price of $284.89. Analysts have set target prices ranging from $165.0 to $330.0 per share for ShockWave Medical, and have given the stock an average rating of buy.

The stock has an average amount of shares sold short at 2.3%, and a short ratio of 1.6. Since 1.18% of the company's shares are owned by insiders, we can infer that there is a degree of alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 93.3% of ShockWave Medical's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in ShockWave Medical

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2023-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 10% 3,636,444 $742,525,509
2023-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 10% 3,603,014 $735,699,437
2023-06-30 FMR, LLC 7% 2,434,974 $497,197,347
2023-06-30 Wellington Management Group, LLP 4% 1,352,723 $276,212,512
2023-06-30 Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 3% 1,147,784 $234,366,017
2023-06-30 Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 3% 1,091,050 $222,781,502
2023-06-30 State Street Corporation 3% 1,018,186 $207,903,401
2023-06-30 JP Morgan Chase & Company 2% 835,138 $170,526,830
2023-06-30 Invesco Ltd. 2% 773,776 $157,997,323
2023-06-30 Capital World Investors 2% 585,000 $119,451,151

Besides an analyst consensus of strong upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on ShockWave Medical.

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