Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT)

Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) does about 3.79M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 22868415 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 22.84M USD. Its current market price is $0.18, marking an increase of 14.96% compared to the previous close of $0.16. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $0.57 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.12.

Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) has a 20-day trading average at $0.1499 and the current price is -68.56% off the 52-week high compared with 49.17% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.1568 and its 200-day simple moving average is $0.2183. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 10.33%, which decreases to 6.23% 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 69.86 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $60.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 99.7% over the period.

UBS reiterated its price target at $19-$14.

The current price level is 19.42%, 14.16%, and -17.99% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the OPTT price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) stock is up 19.49% over the week and 19.33% over the past month. Its price is -43.35% year-to-date and -40.55% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 99.7 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -104.46% and return on equity of -81.80%. The beta has a value of 2.22. Price to book ratio is 0.77 and price to sales ratio is 4.12.