Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: AMRX) – Time For Strategy Change?

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:AMRX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.50M but it saw 1328499 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.67B USD, the company’s current market price of $8.61 came rising about 1.53 while comparing to the previous closing price of $8.48. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $8.59 and as low as $3.36. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $8.47 while lowest mark touched by it was $8.645.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc (AMRX) gives us an average price of $7.78, while its current price level is 0.23% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 156.25% 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 $7.31 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $6.11. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.79% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.28%. 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 72.23 which implies that the stock is in overbought 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 RBC Capital Mkts which resumed the stock as “Sector Perform” in its note to investors issued on April 07, 2021, recommending a price target of $5 for it. Goldman upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Sell” on March 08, 2021 while assigning a price target range of $4-$6.50. Guggenheim issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $5.50.

Over the week, AMRX’s stock price is moving 5.77% up while it is 19.25% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 41.85% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 111.03%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in September, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.13 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.6. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $699.63M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $2.75B and seeing the company making $2.84B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $694.17M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 306.56M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -7.88% and return on equity (ROE) at -133.96%. It has a 12.34 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.18. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.03. Its return on asset (ROA) is -4.84% on average.