Herbalife Ltd (NYSE: HLF) Trading under Its 20 Day MA ($8.67), Why Showing An Interesting Price Pattern?

Herbalife Ltd (NYSE:HLF) does about 2.40M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1139869 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 814.92M USD. Its current market price is $8.21, marking a decrease of -1.08% compared to the previous close of $8.30. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $19.48 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $6.68.

Herbalife Ltd (HLF) has a 20-day trading average at $8.67 and the current price is -57.85% off the 52-week high compared with 22.90% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $9.20 and its 200-day simple moving average is $12.96. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.64%, which increases to 6.93% 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 43.37 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $12.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 34.32% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on September 14, 2023 when DA Davidson initiated the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $13.50. BofA Securities initiated its price target at $14.

Herbalife Ltd (HLF) stock is down -7.23% over the week and -8.37% over the past month. Its price is -46.20% year-to-date and -44.04% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 34.32 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 10.45%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 5.77 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 3.06. The beta has a value of 1.26. Price to sales ratio is 0.16.