How Worried Should Investors Be About Honest Company Inc (NASDAQ: HNST)

Honest Company Inc (NASDAQ:HNST) does about 852.92K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 11449941 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 288.03M USD. Its current market price is $2.92, marking an increase of 0.34% compared to the previous close of $2.91. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $4.89 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.06.

Honest Company Inc (HNST) has a 20-day trading average at $2.63 and the current price is -40.29% off the 52-week high compared with 175.47% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.82 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.62. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 7.83%, which decreases to 4.77% 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 63.66 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.55, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 35.82% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on June 25, 2024 when Loop Capital upgraded the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $3. Alliance Global Partners initiated its price target at $5.75.

Honest Company Inc (HNST) stock is up 17.74% over the week and 5.04% over the past month. Its price is -11.52% year-to-date and 74.85% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 35.82 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -15.08% and return on equity of -17.01%. The beta has a value of 1.85. Price to book ratio is 2.27 and price to sales ratio is 0.83.