The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ZPTA)

Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ZPTA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 15.38M but it saw 166320640 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.68M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.09 came rising about 43.22 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.06. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $18.50 and as low as $0.06. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.0854 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.111.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. (ZPTA) gives us an average price of $0.1952, while its current price level is -99.51% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 49.83% 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 $0.3544 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $3.5349. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 22.14% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 21.33%. 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 30.02 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, ZPTA’s stock price is moving -19.22% down while it is -74.84% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -99.16% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -99.16%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in November, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.14 while estimate for next year EPS is -1.44. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.9M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $7M and seeing the company making $14M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.8M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Zapata Computing Holdings Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 40.54M with 19.03% of that held by the insiders while 6.57% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on equity (ROE) at -39.08%. Stock’s beta reads 0.30. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.14. Its return on asset (ROA) is -31.62% on average.