Look Past The Setbacks And Give B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ: RILY) Another Chance

B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.78M but it saw 3416545 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 163.62M USD, the company’s current market price of $5.40 came falling about -6.09 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.75. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $52.74 and as low as $4.51. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.28 while lowest mark touched by it was $6.06.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) gives us an average price of $10.27, while its current price level is -89.76% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 19.73% 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 $14.80 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $20.85. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 15.77% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 18.91%. 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 28.96 which implies that the stock is in oversold territory.

Over the week, RILY’s stock price is moving -32.42% down while it is -71.34% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -74.27% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -88.97%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2011-Aug-15, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.

Currently, B. Riley Financial Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 29.94M with 47.61% of that held by the insiders while 34.53% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -6.18% and return on equity (ROE) at -47.45%. Stock’s beta reads 1.30. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.71 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.11. Its return on asset (ROA) is -2.49% on average.