ASE Technology Holding Co.Ltd ADR (ASX): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

ASE Technology Holding Co.Ltd ADR (NYSE:ASX) does about 6.18M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 4410090 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 22.27B USD. Its current market price is $10.33, marking an increase of 2.28% compared to the previous close of $10.10. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $11.68 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $6.70.

ASE Technology Holding Co.Ltd ADR (ASX) has a 20-day trading average at $10.65 and the current price is -11.56% off the 52-week high compared with 54.18% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $10.60 and its 200-day simple moving average is $8.86. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.49%, which increases to 2.56% 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 44.84 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $9.10, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -13.52% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on July 28, 2023 when Goldman upgraded the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of between $6.60 and $9.20. HSBC Securities downgraded the stock to “Hold” from Buy on June 28, 2023 at a price target of $6.47.

ASE Technology Holding Co.Ltd ADR (ASX) stock is up 1.47% over the week and -6.01% over the past month. Its price is 9.78% year-to-date and 52.36% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -13.52 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 7.89% and return on equity of 11.17%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 22.58 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 13.44. The beta has a value of 1.28. Price to book ratio is 2.29 and price to sales ratio is 1.20.