Ballard Power Systems Inc (NASDAQ:BLDP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.28M but it saw 3211204 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 535.96M USD, the company’s current market price of $1.28 remained unchanged while comparing to the previous closing price of $1.28. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $4.01 and as low as $1.23. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $1.26 while lowest mark touched by it was $1.33.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Ballard Power Systems Inc (BLDP) gives us an average price of $1.4350, while its current price level is -68.12% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 4.07% 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 $1.5892 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $2.3560. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.71% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 7.18%. 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 35.48 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
HSBC Securities issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $4.50.
Over the week, BLDP’s stock price is moving 0.79% up while it is -19.50% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -65.41% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -63.32%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -0.17 beaten by the consensus estimate of -0.13 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.12 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.83. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $16.6M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $75.06M and seeing the company making $104.48M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $28.84M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Ballard Power Systems Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 298.94M with 15.53% of that held by the insiders while 26.05% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -44.25% and return on equity (ROE) at -33.54%. Stock’s beta reads 1.72. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.53 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.87. Its return on asset (ROA) is -30.11% on average.
