Evergy Inc (NASDAQ:EVRG) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.80M but it saw 1894739 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 15.38B USD, the company’s current market price of $66.89 came rising about 0.69 while comparing to the previous closing price of $66.43. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $66.53 and as low as $48.17. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $66.41 while lowest mark touched by it was $67.06.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Evergy Inc (EVRG) gives us an average price of $64.41, while its current price level is 0.55% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 38.86% 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 $62.78 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $59.16. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.46% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.46%. 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 71.34 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.
Ladenburg Thalmann upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on January 02, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $59-$68.50. Mizuho issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $67.
Over the week, EVRG’s stock price is moving 2.09% up while it is 9.28% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 8.68% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 34.40%.
Currently, Evergy Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 229.97M with 0.44% of that held by the insiders while 89.50% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.95% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.63%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 18.07 while having a 16.62 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.62. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.53 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.65. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.72% on average.
