Amprius Technologies Inc (AMPX): The Latest Casualty Of Increased Volatility?

Amprius Technologies Inc (NYSE:AMPX) does about 1.98M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1606099 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 247.30M USD. Its current market price is $2.14, marking an increase of 9.18% compared to the previous close of $1.96. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $6.02 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.61.

Amprius Technologies Inc (AMPX) has a 20-day trading average at $1.88 and the current price is -64.45% off the 52-week high compared with 248.99% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.50 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.66. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 10.57%, which increases to 15.23% 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 60.70 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $7.17, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 70.15% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 2 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 2 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 January 11, 2024 when ROTH MKM initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $10. Alliance Global Partners initiated its price target at $10.

The current price level is 13.50%, 42.34%, and 28.56% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the AMPX price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Amprius Technologies Inc (AMPX) stock is up 8.08% over the week and 41.72% over the past month. Its price is -59.55% year-to-date and -48.18% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 70.15 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -40.66% and return on equity of -61.64%. The beta has a value of 2.77. Price to book ratio is 3.55 and price to sales ratio is 19.91.