More To Go Or Is It Over? – Helius Medical Technologies Inc (HSDT)

Helius Medical Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:HSDT) does about 2.44M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1058724 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 2.58M USD. Its current market price is $0.69, marking an increase of 1.76% compared to the previous close of $0.68. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $9.50 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.37.

Helius Medical Technologies Inc (HSDT) has a 20-day trading average at $0.6869 and the current price is -92.72% off the 52-week high compared with 85.52% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.5961 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.3776. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 13.85%, which increases to 21.33% 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 52.27 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $4.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 82.75% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 3 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 3 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 March 24, 2021 when Noble Capital Markets initiated the stock to “Outperform” and issued a price target of $20.

The current price level is 0.74%, 16.08%, and -49.77% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the HSDT price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Helius Medical Technologies Inc (HSDT) stock is down -5.10% over the week and 19.52% over the past month. Its price is 3.24% year-to-date and -91.02% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.94 and -5.64 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $100k, which analysts say will come at $468k for the current fiscal year and next year at $510k. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $100k.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 82.75 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 3.73M with insiders holding 0.53% of the shares and institutional holders owning 5.87% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -233.19% and return on equity of -259.79%. The beta has a value of 1.47. Price to book ratio is 0.66 and price to sales ratio is 5.17.