How Worried Should Investors Be About Ring Energy Inc (REI)

Ring Energy Inc (AMEX:REI) does about 1.95M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1399597 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 376.07M USD. Its current market price is $1.90, marking a decrease of -3.55% compared to the previous close of $1.97. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $2.43 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.25.

Ring Energy Inc (REI) has a 20-day trading average at $1.6705 and the current price is -21.81% off the 52-week high compared with 52.00% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.4784 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.7175. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.72%, which increases to 5.21% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 67.51 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $3.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 36.67% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on August 01, 2022 when ROTH Capital downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $4.90 and $7.50. ROTH Capital upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Neutral on October 14, 2021 at a price target of $4.75.

Ring Energy Inc (REI) stock is up 4.40% over the week and 39.71% over the past month. Its price is 30.14% year-to-date and 4.40% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 12/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of $0.11 below consensus estimates by -$0.01. REI’s earnings per share are forecast to shrink by -15.70% this year and 9.30% over next year. Expected sales for next quarter are $90.63 million, which analysts say will come at $364.37 million for the current fiscal year and next year at $372.25 million. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $87.68 million.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 36.67 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 196.84M with insiders holding 12.04% of the shares and institutional holders owning 47.70% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 8.63% and return on equity of 14.49%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 3.53 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 3.90. The beta has a value of 1.76. Price to book ratio is 0.48 and price to sales ratio is 1.04.