Applied Therapeutics Inc (APLT) At $0.50 Offering A Unique Opportunity

Applied Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:APLT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.35M but it saw 1985111 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 58.34M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.50 came falling about -2.22 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.51. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $10.62 and as low as $0.43.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Applied Therapeutics Inc (APLT) gives us an average price of $0.5501, while its current price level is -95.28% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 15.78% 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 $0.6470 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $4.6779. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 11.11% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 11.17%. 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 33.63 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

UBS downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Buy” on December 02, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $13-$2. RBC Capital Mkts also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $12 and $4.

Over the week, APLT’s stock price is moving -1.72% down while it is -10.51% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -41.44% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -92.73%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in April, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.18 while estimate for next year EPS is -1.33. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $12.32M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $553k and seeing the company making $15.14M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $100k for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Applied Therapeutics Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 116.36M with 5.70% of that held by the insiders while 107.39% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Stock’s beta reads 1.92. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 9.90.