Investors Take Advantage Of Green Plains Partners LP’s (NASDAQ: GPP) 15.82% Gain

Green Plains Partners LP (NASDAQ:GPP) price closed higher on Monday, September 18, jumping 15.82% above its previous close.

A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $13.78, with intraday deals fluctuated between $13.569 and $13.82. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 0.83 while its P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 9.49. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $14.91 and 52-week low of $11.72. The stock added 21.74% on its value in the past month.

Green Plains Partners LP, which has a market valuation of $365.80 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Nov 01, 2023 – Nov 06, 2023. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.82, while the dividend yield is 11.40%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results.

Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give GPP a short term outlook of 50% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Buy.

Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 1 analysts have assigned GPP a recommendation rating as follows: 1 rate it as a Hold; 0 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Green Plains Partners LP (GPP) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Hold, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

If we dive deeper into the stock’s performance we see the positive picture represented by the PEG ratio, currently standing at 0.63. The overview shows that GPP’s price is at present 20.16% off the SMA20 and 17.15% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 77.81, with weekly volatility standing at 3.14%. The indicator jumps to 2.58% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Green Plains Partners LP (NASDAQ:GPP)’s beta value is holding at 0.82, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.52. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $14.50-$14.50 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $14.50. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly 9.15% off the estimated low and 9.15% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price rise to $14.50, which is the median consensus price, and at that level GPP would be 9.15% from current price.

Turning out attention to how the Green Plains Partners LP stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: GPP’s stock is 15.82% on the day and 22.58% in the past 12 months, while Plains All American Pipeline L.P. (PAA) traded 0.18% in the last session and was positioned 23.60% up on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with Martin Midstream Partners L.P. (MMLP) whose stock price was down -0.34% in the last trading session, and has flourished -22.08% over the past year. As for Green Plains Partners LP, the P/E ratio stands at 9.49 higher than that of Plains All American Pipeline L.P.’s at 9.37. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has stumbled -0.03% in last trading session.

An analysis of the Green Plains Partners LP (NASDAQ:GPP) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 49.67K. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 27380.0.

Current records show that the company has 23.23M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 0.80% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 16.90%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Aug 30, 2023, stood at 0.18 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 3.11. From this we can glean that short interest is 0.78% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in August fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 0.29 million. But the 23.15% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.