Daktronics Inc (NASDAQ:DAKT) does about 494.29K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 280619 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 843.07M USD. Its current market price is $17.30, marking an increase of 3.72% compared to the previous close of $16.68. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $19.89 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $7.20.
Daktronics Inc (DAKT) has a 20-day trading average at $17.31 and the current price is -13.02% off the 52-week high compared with 140.28% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $15.31 and its 200-day simple moving average is $12.89. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.47%, which increases to 5.28% 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 53.04 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $25.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 30.8% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on January 24, 2018 when Sidoti initiated the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $10. Needham upgraded its price target at $10.
The current price level is 0.03%, 13.01%, and 34.28% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the DAKT price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Daktronics Inc (DAKT) stock is down -3.74% over the week and 14.18% over the past month. Its price is 100.35% year-to-date and 98.25% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.09 and 0.96 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $212M, which analysts say will come at $819.42M for the current fiscal year and next year at $853.1M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $173M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 30.8 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 46.90M with insiders holding 13.23% of the shares and institutional holders owning 72.65% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 9.00% and return on equity of 12.28%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 45.41 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 16.02. The beta has a value of 1.19. Price to book ratio is 3.11 and price to sales ratio is 1.03.
