Star Bulk Carriers Corp (NASDAQ:SBLK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.20M but it saw 4526873 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.95B USD, the company’s current market price of $16.40 came falling about -0.61 while comparing to the previous closing price of $16.50. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $27.47 and as low as $14.30. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $16.345 while lowest mark touched by it was $16.695.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Star Bulk Carriers Corp (SBLK) gives us an average price of $15.75, while its current price level is -40.30% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 14.69% 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 $15.38 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $19.78. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.25% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.75%. 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 58.73 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 DNB Markets which upgraded the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on November 21, 2024, recommending a price target of between $19.30 and $20.20 for it. Stifel downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on October 23, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $30-$21.
Over the week, SBLK’s stock price is moving 3.60% up while it is 4.93% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 9.70% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -31.92%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-17, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.29 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.32. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $197.63M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $891.97M and seeing the company making $1.06B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $161.9M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Star Bulk Carriers Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 118.83M with 5.27% of that held by the insiders while 35.43% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.63% and return on equity (ROE) at 14.71%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 5.73 while having a 4.90 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.77. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.77 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.54. Its return on asset (ROA) is 8.56% on average.
