BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (NYSE:BPT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 371.76K but it saw 1171230 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 12.73M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.60 came rising about 17.92 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.50. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $3.20 and as low as $0.40. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.52 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.6798.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT) gives us an average price of $0.5740, while its current price level is -81.41% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 48.60% 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 $0.7940 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $1.5956. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 26.15% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 14.11%. 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 47.49 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Citigroup which downgraded the stock as “Sell” in its note to investors issued on February 05, 2009, recommending a price target of between $62 and $49 for it.
Over the week, BPT’s stock price is moving 15.76% up while it is -7.32% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 9.37% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -78.21%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in February, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.
Currently, BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust’s total number of outstanding shares is 21.40M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 6.17% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on equity (ROE) at -27.20%. Stock’s beta reads 0.20. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.13 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 42.44. Its return on asset (ROA) is -25.90% on average.
