Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

Bank of Montreal (NYSE:BMO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.07M but it saw 1662954 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 68.08B USD, the company’s current market price of $93.33 came rising about 0.31 while comparing to the previous closing price of $93.04. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $100.12 and as low as $73.98. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $92.42 while lowest mark touched by it was $93.38.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Bank of Montreal (BMO) gives us an average price of $91.89, while its current price level is -6.78% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 26.16% 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 $88.16 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $90.09. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.24% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.29%. 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 62.91 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, BMO’s stock price is moving -0.55% down while it is 3.58% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -5.67% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 20.52%.

Currently, Bank of Montreal’s total number of outstanding shares is 729.41M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.48% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.38%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 14.71 while having a 11.70 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.10. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.26 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.19. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.50% on average.