Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying American Battery Technology Company (ABAT)

American Battery Technology Company (NASDAQ:ABAT) does about 542.88K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1737762 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 55.97M USD. Its current market price is $0.85, marking a decrease of -11.63% compared to the previous close of $0.96. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.45 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.75.

American Battery Technology Company (ABAT) has a 20-day trading average at $0.9855 and the current price is -86.82% off the 52-week high compared with 13.33% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.9936 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.3535. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 8.47%, which decreases to 4.47% 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 28.91 to suggest the stock is oversold.

The consensus objective for the share price is $6.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 85.83% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 27, 2024 when Northland Capital initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $6.

The current price level is -13.75%, -14.45%, and -37.20% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the ABAT price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. American Battery Technology Company (ABAT) stock is down -14.44% over the week and -17.48% over the past month. Its price is -81.88% year-to-date and -79.76% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.19 below consensus estimates by -0.13. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.03 and 0.03 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $33.52M, which analysts say will come at $107.25M for the current fiscal year and next year at $nan. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $20.11M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 85.83 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -91.70% and return on equity of -91.81%. The beta has a value of 1.87. Price to book ratio is 1.05 and price to sales ratio is 101.77.