The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Oscar Health Inc (NYSE: OSCR)

Oscar Health Inc (NYSE:OSCR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.38M but it saw 4495652 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 4.38B USD, the company’s current market price of $18.47 came rising about 10.60 while comparing to the previous closing price of $16.70. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $23.44 and as low as $4.72. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $16.45 while lowest mark touched by it was $18.63.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Oscar Health Inc (OSCR) gives us an average price of $16.40, while its current price level is -21.20% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 291.31% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $17.49 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $14.04. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 11.35% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 6.76%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 59.78 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Piper Sandler which initiated the stock as “Overweight” in its note to investors issued on June 26, 2024, recommending a price target of $25 for it. BofA Securities issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $25 and $21.

Over the week, OSCR’s stock price is moving 2.27% up while it is 12.69% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 101.86% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 159.05%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -0.29 beat the consensus estimate of -0.47 for the same. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.19B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $8.73B and seeing the company making $10.89B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.21B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Oscar Health Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 193.87M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 1.26% and return on equity (ROE) at 1.74%. It has a 32.22 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.59. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.92 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.61. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.40% on average.