With 36.06M Outstanding Shares, Can Novabay Pharmaceuticals Inc (AMEX: NBY) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Novabay Pharmaceuticals Inc (AMEX:NBY) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.71M but it saw 1314173 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.23M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.09 came rising about 10.89 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.08. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $1.28 and as low as $0.06.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Novabay Pharmaceuticals Inc (NBY) gives us an average price of $0.0851, while its current price level is -93.00% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 37.85% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $0.1162 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $0.3225. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 10.82% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 12.02%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 45.51 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Ladenburg Thalmann which initiated the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on September 18, 2019, recommending a price target of $1.10 for it. Laidlaw issued its recommendations for the stock as it reiterated the price target for the stock in the range of between $10 and $8.

Over the week, NBY’s stock price is moving 15.91% up while it is -14.01% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -56.08% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -91.85%.

Currently, Novabay Pharmaceuticals Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 36.06M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -377.59% and return on equity (ROE) at -139.03%. It has a 3.58 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.04. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.74 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.22. Its return on asset (ROA) is -75.81% on average.