Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) does about 37.02M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 19160262 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 168.05M USD. Its current market price is $1.15, marking an increase of 7.48% compared to the previous close of $1.07. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $1.75 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.12.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) has a 20-day trading average at $0.6678 and the current price is -34.29% off the 52-week high compared with 858.33% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.4064 and its 200-day simple moving average is $0.2599. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 33.00%, which decreases to 28.40% 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 64.41 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $60.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 98.08% over the period.
UBS reiterated its price target at $19-$14.
The current price level is 72.22%, 182.97%, and 342.46% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the OPTT price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) stock is up 13.86% over the week and 259.38% over the past month. Its price is 12.75% year-to-date and 273.50% over the past year.
The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 0 for whole year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 98.08 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 146.13M with insiders holding 2.92% of the shares and institutional holders owning 3.41% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -92.44% and return on equity of -80.33%. The beta has a value of 2.63. Price to book ratio is 6.48 and price to sales ratio is 23.74.
