Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. (ONCY) Reports -47.62% Fall From For 52 Week High, It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn

Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ:ONCY) does about 185.08K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1794840 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 84.69M USD. Its current market price is $1.10, marking an increase of 18.22% compared to the previous close of $0.93. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $2.10 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.84.

Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. (ONCY) has a 20-day trading average at $0.9295 and the current price is -47.62% off the 52-week high compared with 30.94% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.9609 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.0681. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 8.99%, which decreases to 5.86% 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 70.57 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.99, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 77.96% over the period.

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. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 06, 2022 when Maxim Group initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $3.

The current price level is 19.25%, 14.62%, and 2.91% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the ONCY price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. (ONCY) stock is up 23.33% over the week and 11.34% over the past month. Its price is -18.52% year-to-date and -46.86% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 6/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.1 below consensus estimates by -0.02. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.07 and -0.29 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 77.96 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -147.61% and return on equity of -137.23%. The beta has a value of 1.72. Price to book ratio is 6.32.