Is Overall Sentiment on Royalty Pharma Bearish?

Royalty Pharma stock is trading -41.82% below its average target price of $44.83 after dropping -4.3% during today's afternoon session. Analysts are giving the Large-Cap Pharmaceutical company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $28.0 to $60.0 per share.

The stock has an average amount of shares sold short at 3.8%, and a short ratio of 6.32. The company's insiders own 22.65% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that an average number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 72.2% of Royalty Pharma's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Royalty Pharma

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2024-03-31 Morgan Stanley 10% 44,217,885 $1,153,202,437
2024-03-31 Vanguard Group Inc 8% 37,699,682 $983,207,703
2024-03-31 FMR, LLC 7% 33,634,216 $877,180,350
2024-03-31 Blackrock Inc. 5% 21,205,841 $553,048,331
2024-06-30 Baillie Gifford and Company 4% 16,352,759 $426,479,953
2024-03-31 Viking Global Investors, L.P. 3% 11,485,547 $299,543,064
2024-03-31 Adage Capital Partners GP L.L.C. 2% 10,816,931 $282,105,559
2024-06-30 Swedbank 2% 10,813,470 $282,015,296
2024-03-31 State Street Corporation 2% 9,100,148 $237,331,859
2024-03-31 JP Morgan Chase & Company 2% 7,995,099 $208,512,181

Besides an analyst consensus of strong upside potential, other market factors point to there being positive market sentiment on Royalty Pharma.

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