Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Alphatec Holdings Inc (ATEC)?

Alphatec Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ATEC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.37M but it saw 1639013 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.45B USD, the company’s current market price of $10.21 came rising about 2.82 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.93. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $17.34 and as low as $4.88. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $9.8136 while lowest mark touched by it was $10.275.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Alphatec Holdings Inc (ATEC) gives us an average price of $8.27, while its current price level is -41.12% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 109.22% 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 $6.62 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $9.94. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 7.47% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 6.99%. 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 73.90 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Wells Fargo issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $26.

Over the week, ATEC’s stock price is moving 16.95% up while it is 99.03% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -32.43% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -10.91%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of -0.11 beaten by the consensus estimate of -0.07 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.07 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.44. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $168.61M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $605.12M and seeing the company making $729.77M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $170.31M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Alphatec Holdings Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 139.25M with 25.55% of that held by the insiders while 57.91% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -30.81% and return on equity (ROE) at -21137.14%. Stock’s beta reads 1.35. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.53. Its return on asset (ROA) is -25.12% on average.