Volatility Is Your Friend: Apartment Investment & Management Co. (AIV) Is Hot Again

Apartment Investment & Management Co. (NYSE:AIV) does about 962.31K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1206870 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 1.26B USD. Its current market price is $8.91, marking an increase of 1.25% compared to the previous close of $8.80. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $9.20 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $5.63.

Apartment Investment & Management Co. (AIV) has a 20-day trading average at $8.79 and the current price is -3.15% off the 52-week high compared with 58.26% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $8.59 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.88. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.73%, which increases to 2.08% 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 58.82 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $11.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 22.52% over the period.

Scotiabank upgraded the stock to “Sector Perform” from Sector Underperform on December 04, 2020 at a price target of $41. Citigroup downgraded its price target at $40-$33.

The current price level is 1.32%, 3.95%, and 13.21% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the AIV price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Apartment Investment & Management Co. (AIV) stock is up 2.41% over the week and -0.78% over the past month. Its price is 13.79% year-to-date and 11.93% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 6/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.02 above consensus estimates by 0.03. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.11 and -0.4 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $53.3M, which analysts say will come at $207.4M for the current fiscal year and next year at $222M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $52.7M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 22.52 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 140.58M with insiders holding 8.40% of the shares and institutional holders owning 82.92% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -14.10% and return on equity of -57.87%. The beta has a value of 1.40. Price to book ratio is 4.82 and price to sales ratio is 6.36.