Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX: OPTT) Recovers 277.58% From 52-Week Low, Is OPTT Still A High-Risk, High-Reward Play?

Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 23.56M but it saw 87099937 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 66.21M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.45 came rising about 37.85 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.33. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $0.82 and as low as $0.12. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.341 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.47.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) gives us an average price of $0.3647, while its current price level is -44.47% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 277.58% 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 $0.2398 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $0.2242. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 16.48% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 21.42%. 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 64.23 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it reiterated the price target for the stock in the range of between $19 and $14.

Over the week, OPTT’s stock price is moving 42.89% up while it is 153.13% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 43.39% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 30.56%.

Currently, Ocean Power Technologies’s total number of outstanding shares is 146.13M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -92.44% and return on equity (ROE) at -80.33%. Stock’s beta reads 2.91. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.55 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 9.35. Its return on asset (ROA) is -64.89% on average.