W & T Offshore Inc (NYSE:WTI) does about 2.95M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2665352 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 386.24M USD. Its current market price is $2.63, marking a decrease of -4.01% compared to the previous close of $2.74. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $5.36 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $2.45.
W & T Offshore Inc (WTI) has a 20-day trading average at $2.61 and the current price is -50.93% off the 52-week high compared with 7.35% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.81 and its 200-day simple moving average is $3.55. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.07%, which increases to 4.41% 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 45.52 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $8.75, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 69.94% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 25, 2022 when Stifel resumed the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $9.10. Stifel upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Hold on October 20, 2021 at a price target of $5.10-$6.90.
W & T Offshore Inc (WTI) stock is down -2.23% over the week and 0.77% over the past month. Its price is -19.33% year-to-date and -50.56% 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 below consensus estimates by -$0.01. Expected sales for next quarter are $136.5 million, which analysts say will come at $590.56 million for the current fiscal year and next year at $672 million. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $139.27 million.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 69.94 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 146.58M with insiders holding 33.78% of the shares and institutional holders owning 44.52% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 3.87% and return on equity of 80.35%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 25.46. The beta has a value of 1.54. Price to book ratio is 12.36 and price to sales ratio is 0.73.
