Cognition Therapeutics Inc (CGTX): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

Cognition Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CGTX) does about 538.63K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 806234 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 24.01M USD. Its current market price is $0.60, marking an increase of 18.00% compared to the previous close of $0.51. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $2.95 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.34.

Cognition Therapeutics Inc (CGTX) has a 20-day trading average at $0.5137 and the current price is -79.72% off the 52-week high compared with 76.00% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.5083 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.4561. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 8.87%, which increases to 12.28% 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 62.02 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $7.50, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 92.0% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 3 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 3 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

B. Riley Securities initiated its price target at $27.

The current price level is 16.47%, 17.71%, and -58.91% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the CGTX price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Cognition Therapeutics Inc (CGTX) stock is up 22.57% over the week and 40.34% over the past month. Its price is -67.65% year-to-date and -43.81% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 92.0 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -132.55% and return on equity of -108.31%. The beta has a value of 1.37. Price to book ratio is 1.04.