Oncolytics Biotech, Inc (ONCY): Choosing The Technical Investor Route

Oncolytics Biotech, Inc (NASDAQ:ONCY) does about 540.05K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1595544 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 69.81M USD. Its current market price is $0.91, marking an increase of 9.00% compared to the previous close of $0.83. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $1.53 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.71.

Oncolytics Biotech, Inc (ONCY) has a 20-day trading average at $0.8684 and the current price is -40.80% off the 52-week high compared with 27.56% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $1.0315 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.0383. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 15.00%, which decreases to 7.44% 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 50.03 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.93, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 81.54% 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 October 06, 2022 when Maxim Group initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $3.

The current price level is 4.29%, -12.19%, and -12.76% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the ONCY price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Oncolytics Biotech, Inc (ONCY) stock is up 9.79% over the week and -7.57% over the past month. Its price is -32.90% year-to-date and -27.54% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.13 and -0.41 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 81.54 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 77.07M with insiders holding 3.82% of the shares and institutional holders owning 1.76% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -278.00% and return on equity of -144.22%. The beta has a value of 1.31. Price to book ratio is 10.41.