POET Technologies Inc (POET): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET) does about 995.20K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1146356 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 200.29M USD. Its current market price is $3.08, marking a decrease of -3.14% compared to the previous close of $3.18. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $4.12 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.72.

POET Technologies Inc (POET) has a 20-day trading average at $2.83 and the current price is -25.24% off the 52-week high compared with 327.78% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.76 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.74. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 7.90%, which increases to 10.53% 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 56.01 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $5.30, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 41.89% over the period.

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The current price level is 9.51%, 12.73%, and 78.32% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the POET price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. POET Technologies Inc (POET) stock is down -4.05% over the week and 5.48% over the past month. Its price is 229.27% year-to-date and -13.24% 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 -0.13 below consensus estimates by -0.03. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.09 and -0.39 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $190k, which analysts say will come at $750k for the current fiscal year and next year at $13.85M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $60k.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 41.89 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 65.03M with insiders holding 0.88% of the shares and institutional holders owning 5.58% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -97.01% and return on equity of -133.36%. The beta has a value of 0.28. Price to book ratio is 7.65 and price to sales ratio is 1669.10.

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