B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) does about 3.11M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1940445 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 183.62M USD. Its current market price is $6.06, marking a decrease of -2.42% compared to the previous close of $6.21. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $46.06 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.51.

B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) has a 20-day trading average at $5.83 and the current price is -86.84% off the 52-week high compared with 34.37% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $11.96 and its 200-day simple moving average is $19.91. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 13.40%, which increases to 20.36% 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 38.07 to suggest the stock is neutral.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 0 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Hold.

The current price level is 4.94%, -50.23%, and -69.66% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the RILY price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) stock is up 12.64% over the week and -13.06% over the past month. Its price is -71.13% year-to-date and -86.41% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year.

The company has a return on investment of -6.18% and return on equity of -47.45%. The beta has a value of 1.23. Price to book ratio is 0.80 and price to sales ratio is 0.13.