POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET) price on Thursday, December 26, rose 31.77% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $7.59.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $5.76, moving within a range at $5.75 and $7.79. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.472. Turning to its 52-week performance, $5.87 and $0.84 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, POET moved 78.59% over the past month.
POET Technologies Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $536.69 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in January.
The average forecast suggests down to a -67.93% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 59.69k, representing a -90.53% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that POET is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
POET’s current price about 50.42% and 73.16% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 78.14, while 7-day volatility ratio is 16.84% and 13.93% in the 30-day chart. Further, POET Technologies Inc (POET) has a beta value of 0.43, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.64. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $3.5, forecast between a low of $3.5 and high of $3.5. Looking at the price targets, the low is 53.89% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 53.89%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 53.89% jump to $3.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.74 over the past 10 days and 1.98 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 70.21 million shares.
The 0.81% of POET Technologies Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 8.90% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.11 million on 2024-10-31, giving us a short ratio of 1.53. The data shows that as of 2024-10-31 short interest in POET Technologies Inc (POET) stood at 306.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.09 million registered in 2024-09-30. Current price change has pushed the stock 711.42% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the POET stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
