H.C. Wainwright raised the price target for the Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) stock to “a Neutral”. The rating was released on February 25, 2015, according to finviz. The research report from UBS has reiterated the stock to Buy, with a price target set at $14. In their research brief published March 20, 2008, UBS analysts reiterated the Ocean Power Technologies stock to Buy with a price target of $19.
Historical Earnings Surprises and Revenue Forecasts
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The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated -6.29% within the last five trades and -11.26% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price decreased -31.19% in the last 6 months and -22.78% was subtracted to its value over the previous 3 months. OPTT stock is trading at a margin of -6.94%, -10.28% and -32.70% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
As of the close of trading, OPTT deals in the Industrials domain. The stock is trading -65.15 percent below its 52-week high and 8.50 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is -55.17. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Ocean Power Technologies’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at -640.85 percent and the profit margin is -614.25 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 37.10 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $15.94 million as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 3.23 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 0.63, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 7.30 percent of Ocean Power Technologies shares are owned by insiders, and 6.87 percent are held by financial institutions. Slaiby Peter E., the Director at Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) has bought 25,000 shares of firm on Sep 28 ’23 at a price of $0.39 against the total amount of $9750.0. In another inside trade, Powers Robert Patrick, Senior VP and CFO of Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) bought 12,345 shares of the firm on Sep 18 ’23 for a total worth of $4950.0 at a price of $0.40. An inside trade which took place on Sep 15 ’23, President and CEO of Ocean Power Technologies Stratmann Philipp bought 12,115 shares of firm against total price of $4999.0 at the cost of $0.41 per share.
