Educational Development Corp. (NASDAQ:EDUC) does about 8.15K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2188173 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 17.25M USD. Its current market price is $2.01, marking an increase of 0.50% compared to the previous close of $2.00. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $2.95 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.80.
Educational Development Corp. (EDUC) has a 20-day trading average at $2.02 and the current price is -31.86% off the 52-week high compared with 151.25% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.06 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.86. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 7.65%, which decreases to 6.26% 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 48.60 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $5.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 59.8% over the period.
The current price level is -0.45%, -2.15%, and 8.45% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the EDUC price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Educational Development Corp. (EDUC) stock is down -0.50% over the week and -1.47% over the past month. Its price is 73.28% year-to-date and 84.40% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 59.8 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 8.58M with insiders holding 26.49% of the shares and institutional holders owning 22.37% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 0.20% and return on equity of 0.32%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 118.93. The beta has a value of 1.06. Price to book ratio is 0.39 and price to sales ratio is 0.37.
