Comtech Telecommunications Corp (NASDAQ:CMTL) price closed higher on Friday, December 20, and jumping 22.59% above its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $3.01, with intraday deals fluctuated between $3.0 and $3.98. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.603. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $8.71 and 52-week low of $1.53. The stock added 21.78% on its value in the past month.
Comtech Telecommunications Corp, which has a market valuation of $131.75 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in January.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit 125.53M, with the likely lows of 124M and highs of 127M. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely fall by -17.37% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of 534.92M for the company’s annual revenue in current year. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow -1.02% below that which the company brought in the current year earning report.
Technical indicators in stocks provide crucial insights into market trends, guiding investors with precise entry and exit points based on price movements for informed decision-making.On the technical perspective front, indicators give CMTL 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 50% 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, 2 analysts have assigned CMTL a recommendation rating as follows: 2 rate it as a Hold; 0 advise Buy while 0 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Comtech Telecommunications Corp (CMTL) 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.
The overview shows that CMTL’s price is at present 7.64% off the SMA20 and 9.41% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 58.52, with weekly volatility standing at 17.64%. The indicator jumps to 10.70% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Comtech Telecommunications Corp (NASDAQ:CMTL)’s beta value is holding at 1.57, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.37. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $3.5-$3.5 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $3.5. Based on this estimate, we see that current price is roughly 5.15% off the estimated low and 5.15% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price rise to $3.5, which is the median consensus price, and at that level CMTL would be 5.15% from current price.
An analysis of the Comtech Telecommunications Corp (NASDAQ:CMTL) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 475.97K. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 0.57 million.
Current records show that the company has 28.73M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 10.52% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 48.02%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-11-29, stood at 1.01 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 2.16. From this we can glean that short interest is 352.00 of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in November rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 0.75 million. But the -56.23% downside, 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.
