Volatility Is Your Friend: Society Pass Inc (SOPA) Is Hot Again

Society Pass Inc (NASDAQ:SOPA) does about 44.13K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 4425751 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 4.70M USD. Its current market price is $1.29, marking an increase of 44.99% compared to the previous close of $0.89. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $3.95 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.73.

Society Pass Inc (SOPA) has a 20-day trading average at $0.9359 and the current price is -67.35% off the 52-week high compared with 77.44% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.9242 and its 200-day simple moving average is $1.2725. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 17.98%, which decreases to 10.27% 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 75.21 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $16.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 91.94% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 0 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 0 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is nan 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 July 11, 2023 when Ascendiant Capital Markets initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $3.50.

The current price level is 37.84%, 39.56%, and 1.37% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SOPA price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Society Pass Inc (SOPA) stock is up 44.94% over the week and 56.74% over the past month. Its price is 43.65% year-to-date and -61.12% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at -0.33 and -2.54 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $3.26M, which analysts say will come at $7M for the current fiscal year and next year at $16.7M. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $1.8M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 91.94 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 3.65M with insiders holding 15.72% of the shares and institutional holders owning 4.05% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -745.65% and return on equity of -206.19%. The beta has a value of 1.19. Price to book ratio is 4.29 and price to sales ratio is 0.68.