Equity Commonwealth (NYSE:EQC) does about 1.07M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1487824 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 2.16B USD. Its current market price is $20.09, marking a decrease of -0.15% compared to the previous close of $20.12. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $21.00 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $17.93.
Equity Commonwealth (EQC) has a 20-day trading average at $19.89 and the current price is -4.33% off the 52-week high compared with 12.05% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $19.95 and its 200-day simple moving average is $19.40. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 0.99%, which decreases to 0.78% 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 64.18 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $20.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 2.0% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 04, 2021 when BofA Securities downgraded the stock to “Underperform” and issued a price target of $28. BofA Securities also downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on May 07, 2021 at a price target of $32-$29.
The current price level is 1.03%, 0.70%, and 3.57% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the EQC price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Equity Commonwealth (EQC) stock is up 1.16% over the week and 1.46% over the past month. Its price is 4.64% year-to-date and 6.75% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $4.76M, which analysts say will come at $28.16M for the current fiscal year and next year at $7.39M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $5.79M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 2.0 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 1.74% and return on equity of 2.10%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 52.18. The beta has a value of 0.27. Price to book ratio is 0.94 and price to sales ratio is 36.90.
