The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About BP plc ADR (NYSE: BP)

BP plc ADR (NYSE:BP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 9.57M but it saw 7617026 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 76.05B USD, the company’s current market price of $29.14 came rising about 0.03 while comparing to the previous closing price of $29.13. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $40.40 and as low as $27.82. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $28.91 while lowest mark touched by it was $29.19.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of BP plc ADR (BP) gives us an average price of $29.16, while its current price level is -27.87% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 4.73% 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 $30.39 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $34.53. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.39% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.46%. 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 44.80 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, BP’s stock price is moving 0.03% up while it is -2.74% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -17.68% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -17.43%.

Currently, BP plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.69B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.15% and return on equity (ROE) at 3.95%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 30.74 while having a 7.48 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.63. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.21 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.39. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.99% on average.