Outset Medical Inc (NASDAQ: OM) – Time For Strategy Change?

Outset Medical Inc (NASDAQ:OM) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.95M but it saw 3277839 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 23.46M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.45 came falling about -11.69 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.51. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $13.77 and as low as $0.47. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.435 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.51.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Outset Medical Inc (OM) gives us an average price of $0.5918, while its current price level is -96.73% below from 52-week high level whereas it is -4.17% 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 $2.2532 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $3.3330. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 11.63% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 11.83%. 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 16.67 which implies that the stock is in oversold 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 downgraded the stock as “Sector Perform” in its note to investors issued on August 08, 2024, recommending a price target of between $6 and $3 for it. RBC Capital Mkts upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Sector Perform” on June 21, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $5-$6. BTIG Research issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $6.

Over the week, OM’s stock price is moving -11.93% down while it is -48.23% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -91.67% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -96.61%.

Currently, Outset Medical Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 50.32M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -59.13% and return on equity (ROE) at -126.48%. Stock’s beta reads 1.90. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.34 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.20. Its return on asset (ROA) is -49.06% on average.