B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ: RILY): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.68M but it saw 1383758 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 177.25M USD, the company’s current market price of $5.85 came falling about -2.17 while comparing to the previous closing price of $5.98. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $42.50 and as low as $4.07. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $5.8 while lowest mark touched by it was $6.09.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) gives us an average price of $5.19, while its current price level is -86.24% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 43.73% 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 $5.55 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $17.65. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 9.32% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 9.96%. 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 51.98 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, RILY’s stock price is moving 7.54% up while it is 8.13% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -72.13% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -84.67%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2011-Aug-15, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.

Currently, B. Riley Financial Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 29.94M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -6.18% and return on equity (ROE) at -47.45%. Stock’s beta reads 1.26. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.77 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.12. Its return on asset (ROA) is -2.49% on average.