B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) price closed lower on Monday, January 13, and dropping -13.66% below its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $4.57, with intraday deals fluctuated between $3.94 and $4.55. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.242. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $40.09 and 52-week low of $4.07. The stock subtracted -23.00% on its value in the past month.
B. Riley Financial Inc, which has a market valuation of $119.67 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in February. The company stock has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.00, while the dividend yield is 25.32%. It is understandable that investor optimism is growing ahead of the company’s current quarter results.
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 RILY a short term outlook of 100% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.
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 RILY 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 B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) 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 RILY’s price is at present -17.53% off the SMA20 and -22.26% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 29.64, with weekly volatility standing at 8.34%. The indicator jumps to 7.09% when calculated based on the past 30 days. B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY)’s beta value is holding at 1.28, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.37.
An analysis of the B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 1.41 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 0.79 million.
Current records show that the company has 30.10M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 48.67% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 27.03%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-12-13, stood at 9.83 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 11.6. From this we can glean that short interest is 4826.00 of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in December fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 10.29 million. But the -13.94% 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.
