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Filed 2025-04-23 路 Form 8-K 路 Accession 0000950170-25-057323 mid
Price before filing: $25.48 (2025-04-22 close, split/dividend-adjusted)
Market cap at flag: $2.89B (2025-04-23) 路 Latest: $2.92B (2026-10-16)
| Window | VKTX | SPY | vs SPY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 days | +5.9% | +9.8% | -4.0% | 2025-05-23 |
| 90 days | +26.0% | +19.6% | +6.4% | 2025-07-22 |
| 180 days | +32.5% | +28.1% | +4.4% | 2025-10-20 |
Return from the last close before the filing date to the first close on/after the window end. Pending windows have not fully elapsed. Past performance says nothing certain about the future.
90 days before the flag: 1 insider bought $30K (1 purchase)
30 days after: none reported.
| Date | Insider | Type | Shares | Price | Value | 10b5-1 plan | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-31 | Rouan Sarah Kathryn Director | Purchase | 1,240 | $24.15 | $30K | no | Form 4/A |
| 2025-04-23: red flag filed | |||||||
Open-market purchases and sales (Form 4 codes P and S) by officers, directors and 10% owners, by transaction date, from 2025-01-23 to 2025-05-23. Excludes option exercises, grants, gifts and tax withholding. Amended filings replace the originals; joint filings count once. Foreign private issuers do not file Form 4. Many insider sales are pre-scheduled (10b5-1 plans) and are not by themselves a sign of wrongdoing.
"Accordingly, on April 18, 2025, as a result of the acquisition, Marcum resigned as the independent registered public accounting firm of Viking Therapeutics, Inc."
Quoted from the filing. Source
The company changed its outside auditor (8-K Item 4.01). A dismissal or resignation, especially near an annual report or with reported disagreements, is a warning sign. Changes caused by audit firms merging are usually routine.
Type: routine (audit-firm merger)
Disagreements reported: no
Former auditor: Marcum LLP · New auditor: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
Why this score: routine: audit firm merged/was acquired
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