Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd (MAXN): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:MAXN) does about 2.36M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1833868 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 117.70M USD. Its current market price is $2.23, marking a decrease of -5.51% compared to the previous close of $2.36. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $38.91 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.71.

Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd (MAXN) has a 20-day trading average at $2.08 and the current price is -94.27% off the 52-week high compared with 30.41% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.88 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.98. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 12.76%, which increases to 12.80% 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 46.18 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $5.40, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 58.7% over the period.

UBS also downgraded the stock to “Sell” from Neutral on March 08, 2024 at a price target of $7-$3. Mizuho initiated its price target at $7.

Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd (MAXN) stock is up 11.50% over the week and -21.20% over the past month. Its price is -68.90% year-to-date and -91.45% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2023, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -1.84 below consensus estimates by -0.57. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -1.8 and -3.46 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $193.9M, which analysts say will come at $1.12B for the current fiscal year and next year at $891.55M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $229M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 58.7 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -47.51% and return on equity of -112.12%. The beta has a value of 1.63. Price to book ratio is 0.69 and price to sales ratio is 0.10.