Volatility Is Your Friend: American Resources Corporation (AREC) Is Hot Again

American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) does about 301.93K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 677301 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 102.19M USD. Its current market price is $1.32, marking an increase of 10.92% compared to the previous close of $1.19. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $1.78 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.41.

American Resources Corporation (AREC) has a 20-day trading average at $1.1127 and the current price is -25.84% off the 52-week high compared with 221.95% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.0402 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.0273. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 9.30%, which increases to 10.74% 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 64.54 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 67.0% 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 current price level is 18.63%, 26.90%, and 28.50% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the AREC price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. American Resources Corporation (AREC) stock is up 7.32% over the week and 25.71% over the past month. Its price is -11.41% year-to-date and -23.26% over the past year.

The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of -0.15 below consensus estimates by -0.11. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.13 and -0.44 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $13.9M, which analysts say will come at $2.9M for the current fiscal year and next year at $95.95M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $2.6M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 67.0 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of -19.63% and return on equity of -4505.09%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 37.71. The beta has a value of 0.22. Price to sales ratio is 255.49.