Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) Jumps 6.76%: Is This A Sign Of Things To Come?

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL) shares, rose in value on Thursday, January 23, with the stock price up by 6.76% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $4.74.

Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $4.44, falling within a range of $4.19 and $4.75. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.97. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $4.99, and the low was $1.67. On the whole, PL has fluctuated by 22.16% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Planet Labs PBC currently standing at about $1.42 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that PL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of PL currently trading nearly 15.37% and 23.65% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 63.57, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 8.78% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 7.46%. Furthermore, Planet Labs PBC (PL)’s beta value is 1.33, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.35.

A comparison of Planet Labs PBC (PL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. PL showed an intraday change of 6.76% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 107.89%%.

Data on historical trading for Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 3.67 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.44 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 275.27 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 32.82% of Planet Labs PBC’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 28.24% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.29 million shares as on 2024-11-29, resulting in a short ratio of 1.67. According to the data, the short interest in Planet Labs PBC (PL) stood at 220.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-11-29; the number of short shares registered in 2024-10-31 reached 5.92 million. The stock has risen by 17.33% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the PL stock heading into the next quarter.

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