Equity Commonwealth (NYSE:EQC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.72M but it saw 2168997 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.16B USD, the company’s current market price of $20.08 came falling about -0.20 while comparing to the previous closing price of $20.12. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $21.00 and as low as $17.93. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $20.075 while lowest mark touched by it was $20.1535.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Equity Commonwealth (EQC) gives us an average price of $19.98, while its current price level is -4.38% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 11.99% 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 $19.92 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $19.44. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 0.49% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 0.84%. 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 55.69 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the BofA Securities which downgraded the stock as “Underperform” in its note to investors issued on October 04, 2021, recommending a price target of $28 for it. BofA Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on May 07, 2021 while assigning a price target range of $32-$29.
Over the week, EQC’s stock price is moving 1.62% up while it is 1.36% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.58% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 6.47%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.
Currently, Equity Commonwealth’s total number of outstanding shares is 106.85M with 2.10% of that held by the insiders while 99.18% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 1.74% and return on equity (ROE) at 2.10%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 52.16. Stock’s beta reads 0.27. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.94 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 36.89. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.06% on average.
