Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc (NYSE:HLX) does about 1.91M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1697261 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 1.61B USD. Its current market price is $10.56, marking a decrease of -6.05% compared to the previous close of $11.24. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $13.05 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $8.82.
Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc (HLX) has a 20-day trading average at $12.13 and the current price is -19.08% off the 52-week high compared with 19.73% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $11.49 and its 200-day simple moving average is $10.48. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 6.28%, which decreases to 4.42% 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 31.87 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $16.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 34.0% over the period.
3 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 26, 2022 when BTIG Research upgraded the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $10. Evercore ISI also upgraded the stock to “Outperform” from In-line on July 27, 2022 at a price target of $6-$8. Piper Sandler upgraded its price target at $4.50-$5.60.
Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc (HLX) stock is down -15.11% over the week and -12.51% over the past month. Its price is 2.72% year-to-date and 12.58% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 34.0 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of -0.32% and return on equity of -0.45%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 12.55. The beta has a value of 2.43. Price to book ratio is 1.07 and price to sales ratio is 1.15.
