Should You Sell ST Microelectronics (STM) And Go Away This Year?

ST Microelectronics (NYSE:STM) currently has a daily average trading volume of 7.02M but it saw 5220385 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 22.67B USD, the company’s current market price of $25.48 came falling about -0.62 while comparing to the previous closing price of $25.64. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $45.39 and as low as $21.36. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $25.245 while lowest mark touched by it was $25.8.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of ST Microelectronics (STM) gives us an average price of $25.57, while its current price level is -43.86% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 19.29% 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 $24.77 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $29.74. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.41% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.38%. 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 52.61 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, STM’s stock price is moving 3.62% up while it is 4.38% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 2.04% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -43.19%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-29, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.05 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.81. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.64B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $11.74B and seeing the company making $13.64B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.55B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, ST Microelectronics’s total number of outstanding shares is 898.18M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 9.15% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.96% and return on equity (ROE) at 9.12%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 15.37 while having a 14.81 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.48. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.31 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.71. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.33% on average.