No Stopping Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc (NYSE: PDM) These Days

Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:PDM) does about 865.35K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 549744 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 856.08M USD. Its current market price is $6.91, marking an increase of 1.17% compared to the previous close of $6.83. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $8.05 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.91.

Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc (PDM) has a 20-day trading average at $6.71 and the current price is -14.16% off the 52-week high compared with 40.73% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $6.53 and its 200-day simple moving average is $6.48. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 3.56%, which decreases to 3.11% 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 56.36 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $9.17, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 24.65% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 07, 2020 when Robert W. Baird upgraded the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $26.

Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc (PDM) stock is up 2.98% over the week and 6.14% over the past month. Its price is -2.81% year-to-date and 11.45% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 3/31/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.02 below consensus estimates by -0.02. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.11 and -0.36 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $140.89M, which analysts say will come at $566.45M for the current fiscal year and next year at $563.35M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $139.66M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 24.65 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -1.97% and return on equity of -4.27%. The beta has a value of 1.16. Price to book ratio is 0.51 and price to sales ratio is 1.41.