Jumia Technologies Ag ADR (NYSE: JMIA) Gains 4.62% And Its 8.86% Stock Volatility Is Bewildering

Jumia Technologies Ag ADR (NYSE:JMIA) does about 3.74M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2858043 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 756.53M USD. Its current market price is $7.48, marking an increase of 4.62% compared to the previous close of $7.15. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $10.55 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $2.22.

Jumia Technologies Ag ADR (JMIA) has a 20-day trading average at $7.98 and the current price is -29.10% off the 52-week high compared with 236.18% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $6.64 and its 200-day simple moving average is $4.46. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 8.86%, which increases to 10.09% 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 51.09 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -87.0% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 03, 2024 when Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to “Equal-Weight” and issued a price target of between $3 and $3.60. Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to “Underweight” from Equal-Weight on November 29, 2021 at a price target of $11. Stifel downgraded its price target at $8-$4.50.

Jumia Technologies Ag ADR (JMIA) stock is up 4.18% over the week and 5.50% over the past month. Its price is 111.90% year-to-date and 118.71% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -87.0 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -250.00% and return on equity of -120.18%. The beta has a value of 3.02. Price to book ratio is 17.59 and price to sales ratio is 3.75.