Serve Robotics Inc (SERV): Are Investors Missing The Big Picture?

Serve Robotics Inc (NASDAQ:SERV) does about 5.18M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2993686 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 363.33M USD. Its current market price is $8.33, marking a decrease of -1.54% compared to the previous close of $8.46. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $37.00 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $1.77.

Serve Robotics Inc (SERV) has a 20-day trading average at $9.43 and the current price is -77.49% off the 52-week high compared with 370.62% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $8.95. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 7.12%, which increases to 9.82% 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 44.22 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $15.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 44.47% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 28, 2024 when Ladenburg Thalmann initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $16. Seaport Research Partners initiated its price target at $12.

The current price level is -11.66%, -6.89%, and 22.99% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SERV price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Serve Robotics Inc (SERV) stock is up 4.12% over the week and -12.68% over the past month. Its price is -66.68% year-to-date.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.13 and -0.63 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $719.65k, which analysts say will come at $1.91M for the current fiscal year and next year at $13.31M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $254.02k.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 44.47 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 36.94M with insiders holding 33.64% of the shares and institutional holders owning 19.31% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -58.84% and return on equity of -112.87%. Price to book ratio is 6.35 and price to sales ratio is 216.27.