Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) Down -49.57% From Its 52-Week High, But Growth Potential Is Changing Over Time

Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 19.77M but it saw 75064960 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 51.95M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.41 came rising about 11.22 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.37. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $0.82 and as low as $0.12. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.382 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.4766.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) gives us an average price of $0.2376, while its current price level is -49.57% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 242.92% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $0.1873 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $0.2213. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 32.27% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 14.40%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 60.26 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it reiterated the price target for the stock in the range of between $19 and $14.

Over the week, OPTT’s stock price is moving 40.97% up while it is 178.98% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 30.22% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 5.51%.

Currently, Ocean Power Technologies’s total number of outstanding shares is 126.23M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -104.46% and return on equity (ROE) at -81.80%. Stock’s beta reads 2.90. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.76 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 9.36. Its return on asset (ROA) is -66.52% on average.