First Wave BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ:FWBI) concluded the trading at $0.51 on Thursday, September 14 with a rise of 16.75% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $0.44 with its price kept floating in the range of $0.4821 and $1.11 on the day. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 0.06. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that FWBI hit a high price of $20.65 and saw its price falling to a low level of $0.27 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 20.01% in its value.
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With its current market valuation of $3.63 million. Analysts are in estimates of -$0.58 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to -$3.1 for 2023 with estimates of that growing to -$1.55 in next year. These estimates are suggesting current year growth of 85.20% for EPS and 50.00% growth next year.
In last 7 days, analysts came adjusting their opinions about stock’s EPS with no upward and no downward revisions, an indication which could give clearer idea about the company’s short term price movement. In contrast, when we review FWBI stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 50% Sell, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 100% Sell. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Sell for it.
According to ratings assigned by 2 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 1 of them are recommending First Wave BioPharma Inc. (FWBI) as a Hold, while 1 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 0, whereas 0 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the FWBI stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 37.30% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -15.32% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 55.83 while volatility remained at 36.08% over the past week which changes to 27.00% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.56, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.12. In predicting price targets of as low as $10.00 and as high as $11.00, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $10.50. Stock’s current price level is -1860.78% above from estimated low price target while it is -2056.86% below the estimated high; and even if the FWBI’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $10.50, then the outlook of -1958.82% could come to the excitement of the investors.
In comparing First Wave BioPharma Inc. (FWBI)’s stock with other industry players reveals that stock’s current price change of 16.75% and that of -97.48% over the past 12 months is in competing position with that of Pieris Pharmaceuticals Inc. (PIRS) which saw its stock price raised by 1.42% in the last trading and went through a decrease of -77.69% in past 12-month trading. First Wave BioPharma Inc. has a P/E ratio of 0.06. On the other hand, the S&P 500 Index was up 0.84% in the last trading session while the Dow Jones Industrial closed the session higher at 0.96%.
Having a second look at First Wave BioPharma Inc. (NASDAQ:FWBI) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 1.52 million, while it jumped to 20.39 million when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 7.15 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 0.77% while it is 2.00% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of Aug 30, 2023, number of stock’s short shares was 21990.0 which implies a short ratio of 0.1. This shows down a 0.31% of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In August the standing of shares short improved as it was 45490.0 in the previous month. Subtraction of -91.71% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
