Do Investors Have Much Faith In Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc (AMEX: CLDI)

Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc (AMEX:CLDI) does about 1.25M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1186599 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 33.81M USD. Its current market price is $1.93, marking a decrease of -4.46% compared to the previous close of $2.02. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $26.30 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.73. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $9 and a low of $2.

Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc (CLDI) has a 20-day trading average at $1.88 and the current price is -92.66% off the 52-week high compared with 164.38% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.41 and its 200-day simple moving average is $2.67. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 12.60%, which increases to 21.01% 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 52.49 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $6.25, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 69.12% over the period. The median price target is 64.91% away from the current levels at $5.5.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on November 22, 2023 when H.C. Wainwright initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $11.

The current price level is 2.44%, 36.88%, and -27.84% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the CLDI price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc (CLDI) stock is down -19.58% over the week and 63.56% over the past month. Its price is -87.22% year-to-date and -89.68% over the past year.

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

Its 12-month price target is $5.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 69.12 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $2, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $9.

Outstanding shares total 11.68M with insiders holding 18.16% of the shares and institutional holders owning 2.71% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on equity of -238.50%. The beta has a value of 0.94.