MultiPlan Corp (NYSE:MPLN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.26M but it saw 2114976 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 151.62M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.23 came rising about 0.82 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.23. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $2.14 and as low as $0.23. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.2251 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.241.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of MultiPlan Corp (MPLN) gives us an average price of $0.3677, while its current price level is -89.03% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 0.82% 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 $0.3782 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $0.8843. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 14.72% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 18.24%. 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 35.79 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 “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on June 26, 2024, recommending a price target of $2 for it. Citigroup downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on December 13, 2022 while assigning a price target range of $3-$2. Goldman also issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $6.50.
Over the week, MPLN’s stock price is moving -16.74% down while it is -45.02% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -83.69% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -87.44%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -0.04 beat the consensus estimate of -0.06 for the same. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $249.53M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $962.54M and seeing the company making $986.73M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $242.84M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, MultiPlan Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 648.32M with 7.14% of that held by the insiders while 80.23% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -22.85% and return on equity (ROE) at -98.82%. Stock’s beta reads 0.83. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.25 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.16. Its return on asset (ROA) is -18.20% on average.
