Predicting Future Price Moves In BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT)

BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (NYSE:BPT) does about 270.80K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1581401 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 11.78M USD. Its current market price is $0.55, marking a decrease of -28.72% compared to the previous close of $0.77. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $3.20 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.52.

BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT) has a 20-day trading average at $0.6564 and the current price is -82.80% off the 52-week high compared with 6.69% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.9096 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.7005. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 15.79%, which decreases to 11.31% 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 37.50 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on February 05, 2009 when Citigroup downgraded the stock to “Sell” and issued a price target of between $62 and $49.

The current price level is -16.17%, -39.50%, and -67.64% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the BPT price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT) stock is down -2.26% over the week and -19.07% over the past month. Its price is 1.16% year-to-date and -80.69% over the past year.

The company has a return on equity of -27.20%. The beta has a value of 0.23. Price to book ratio is 2.90 and price to sales ratio is 39.25.