Investors Are Waking Up To Quantum Corp (NASDAQ: QMCO) After Rising 161.01% Over The Past 12 Months

Quantum Corp (NASDAQ:QMCO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.69M but it saw 4033319 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 135.45M USD, the company’s current market price of $23.23 came rising about 30.43 while comparing to the previous closing price of $17.81. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $90.64 and as low as $2.22. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $16.76 while lowest mark touched by it was $25.46.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Quantum Corp (QMCO) gives us an average price of $26.42, while its current price level is -74.37% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 946.40% 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 $30.91 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $12.76. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 20.09% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 17.08%. 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 45.65 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

B. Riley Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on February 10, 2022 while assigning a price target range of $15-$4.

Over the week, QMCO’s stock price is moving 9.73% up while it is 11.15% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -56.92% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 161.01%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in March, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.27 while estimate for next year EPS is -4.45. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $70.08M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $280.01M and seeing the company making $287.08M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $66.2M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Quantum Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 4.79M with 13.74% of that held by the insiders while 47.66% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Stock’s beta reads 3.02. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.47. Its return on asset (ROA) is -35.29% on average.