Lightpath Technologies, Inc (LPTH)’S -15.17% Retreat Makes It Worth Considering Again

Lightpath Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ:LPTH) concluded the trading at $3.30 on Wednesday, January 08 with a fall of -15.17% from its closing price on previous day.

Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $3.89 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.304 with its price kept floating in the range of $3.24 and $3.8 on the day. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that LPTH hit a high price of $4.42 and saw its price falling to a low level of $1.04 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 80.33% in its value.

In contrast, when we review LPTH stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 100% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 100% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.

Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the LPTH stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 9.47% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 51.23% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 57.44 while volatility remained at 12.46% over the past week which changes to 12.46% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.03, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.35. In predicting price targets of as low as $3 and as high as $3, analysts are in agreement on assigning the stock over the next 12 months average price target of $3. Stock’s current price level is 9.09% above from estimated low price target while it is 9.09% below the estimated high; and even if the LPTH’s share succeeded to reach the median price of $3, then the outlook of 9.09% could come to the excitement of the investors.

Having a second look at Lightpath Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ:LPTH) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 266.06K, while it jumped to 729520 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 39.61 million.

The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 9.15% while it is 40.46% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2024-12-13, number of stock’s short shares was 72817.0 which implies a short ratio of 0.31. This shows up a 19.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In December the standing of shares short improved as it was 48382.0 in the previous month. Subtraction of -6.52% 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.

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