W & T Offshore Inc (WTI): Choosing The Technical Investor Route

W & T Offshore Inc (NYSE:WTI) does about 1.52M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 5870990 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 394.44M USD. Its current market price is $2.68, marking a decrease of -0.74% compared to the previous close of $2.70. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $4.32 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.92.

W & T Offshore Inc (WTI) has a 20-day trading average at $2.15 and the current price is -37.96% off the 52-week high compared with 39.58% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $2.21 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.50. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 9.01%, which decreases to 5.15% 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 74.73 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $10.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 73.2% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 25, 2022 when Stifel resumed the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $9.10. Stifel upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Hold on October 20, 2021 at a price target of $5.10-$6.90.

The current price level is 26.39%, 21.76%, and 7.19% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the WTI price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. W & T Offshore Inc (WTI) stock is up 29.47% over the week and 31.37% over the past month. Its price is -17.79% year-to-date and -29.47% 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 0.01 below consensus estimates by -0.04. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.11 and -0.39 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $158.72M, which analysts say will come at $563.41M for the current fiscal year and next year at $609.47M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $138.27M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 73.2 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -6.59% and return on equity of -168.88%. The beta has a value of 1.36. Price to book ratio is 78.80 and price to sales ratio is 0.71.