Ouster Inc (OUST): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

Ouster Inc (NYSE:OUST) does about 1.51M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 747775 shares change hands in Tuesday’s trading. The company now has a market cap of 428.78M USD. Its current market price is $9.48, marking a decrease of -2.37% compared to the previous close of $9.71. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $14.17 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $3.67.

Ouster Inc (OUST) has a 20-day trading average at $11.07 and the current price is -33.10% off the 52-week high compared with 158.50% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $10.31 and its 200-day simple moving average is $6.81. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 5.66%, which increases to 6.31% 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 36.13 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $13.42, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 29.36% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on May 22, 2024 when Cantor Fitzgerald downgraded the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of between $8 and $13. Chardan Capital Markets upgraded its price target at $10.

Ouster Inc (OUST) stock is down -13.11% over the week and -15.81% over the past month. Its price is 23.60% year-to-date and 74.91% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 29.36 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -96.58% and return on equity of -90.08%. The beta has a value of 2.43. Price to book ratio is 2.55 and price to sales ratio is 4.66.