Investors Are Waking Up To Alcoa Corp (NYSE: AA) After Rising 12.95% Over The Past 12 Months

Alcoa Corp (NYSE:AA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.91M but it saw 4024161 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 9.46B USD, the company’s current market price of $36.62 came falling about -1.85 while comparing to the previous closing price of $37.31. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $47.77 and as low as $24.86. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $36.52 while lowest mark touched by it was $38.13.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Alcoa Corp (AA) gives us an average price of $42.86, while its current price level is -23.34% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 47.30% 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 $42.44 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $37.54. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.90% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 3.54%. 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 27.32 which implies that the stock is in oversold territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Argus which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on October 23, 2024, recommending a price target of $48 for it. B. Riley Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on October 17, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $41-$50. BofA Securities also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $43 and $52.

Over the week, AA’s stock price is moving -7.57% down while it is -19.69% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 7.71% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 12.95%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in January, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.03 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.01. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $3.5B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $11.74B and seeing the company making $12.96B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.44B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Alcoa Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 258.35M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -3.78% and return on equity (ROE) at -5.98%. It has a 9.65 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.47. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.80 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.87. Its return on asset (ROA) is -2.05% on average.