More To Go Or Is It Over? – Amentum Holdings Inc. (AMTM)

Amentum Holdings Inc. (NYSE:AMTM) does about 3.42M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1387055 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 7.50B USD. Its current market price is $30.81, marking a decrease of -0.23% compared to the previous close of $30.88. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $34.50 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $23.58. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $31 and a low of $31.

Amentum Holdings Inc. (AMTM) has a 20-day trading average at $27.95 and the current price is -10.70% off the 52-week high compared with 30.66% distance from its 52-week low. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.05%, which increases to 5.71% over 1 month.

The consensus objective for the share price is $31.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 0.61% over the period. The median price target is 0.61% away from the current levels at $31.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 14, 2024 when Truist initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $31.

The current price level is 10.24%, 10.17%, and 10.17% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the AMTM price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Amentum Holdings Inc. (AMTM) stock is up 6.35% over the week and -4.47% over the past month. Its price is 4.41% year-to-date.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year.

Its 12-month price target is $31. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 0.61 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $31, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $31.

Price to book ratio is 28.38.