Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Smith Micro Software, Inc (SMSI)

Smith Micro Software, Inc (NASDAQ:SMSI) does about 3.63M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 995657 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 17.69M USD. Its current market price is $1.00, marking an increase of 13.95% compared to the previous close of $0.88. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $7.52 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.52.

Smith Micro Software, Inc (SMSI) has a 20-day trading average at $0.7949 and the current price is -86.74% off the 52-week high compared with 91.71% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.8507 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.6876. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 16.05%, which decreases to 11.18% 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 65.61 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.83, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 79.3% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 1 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 1 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 November 29, 2022 when The Benchmark Company initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $5. The Benchmark Company initiated its price target at $9.

The current price level is 25.43%, 17.21%, and -40.92% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SMSI price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Smith Micro Software, Inc (SMSI) stock is up 34.51% over the week and 23.10% over the past month. Its price is -84.91% year-to-date and -84.42% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.11 and -1.24 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $5.86M, which analysts say will come at $20.7M for the current fiscal year and next year at $31.75M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $5.13M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 79.3 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 17.74M with insiders holding 20.97% of the shares and institutional holders owning 14.34% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -129.31% and return on equity of -89.00%. The beta has a value of 0.78. Price to book ratio is 0.31 and price to sales ratio is 0.73.