Avid Bioservices Inc (NASDAQ: CDMO) – Time For Strategy Change?

Avid Bioservices Inc (NASDAQ:CDMO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.01M but it saw 987729 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 574.20M USD, the company’s current market price of $9.00 came falling about -2.60 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.24. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $12.45 and as low as $4.07. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $8.94 while lowest mark touched by it was $9.33.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Avid Bioservices Inc (CDMO) gives us an average price of $10.50, while its current price level is -27.71% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 121.10% 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 $9.53 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $7.61. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 5.36% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 4.48%. 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 35.13 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

KeyBanc Capital Markets upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Overweight” from “Sector Weight” on March 14, 2023 while assigning a price target of $20.

Over the week, CDMO’s stock price is moving -11.94% down while it is -12.45% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 38.46% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -26.23%.

Currently, Avid Bioservices Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 63.57M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -52.93% and return on equity (ROE) at -112.58%. Stock’s beta reads 1.41. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 9.40 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.10. Its return on asset (ROA) is -34.58% on average.