VAALCO Energy, Inc (NYSE:EGY) concluded the trading at $4.10 on Friday, January 31 with a fall of -1.91% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $4.18 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.186 with its price kept floating in the range of $4.05 and $4.2 on the day. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 4.76. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that EGY hit a high price of $7.51 and saw its price falling to a low level of $4.03 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came subtracting -3.30% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $430.89 million, VAALCO Energy, Inc is set to declare its quarterly results in March. EGY Stock’s Forward Dividend of 0.25 and its yield of 6.10% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter. Analysts are in estimates of 0.05 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to 0.83 for current year with estimates of that growing to 0.34 in next year.
Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of 108.9M. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as 108.9M which could climb up to 108.9M to hit a high. The average estimate is representing a decrease of -26.99% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of 491.43M in current fiscal year, which will be 7.99% more from revenue generated by the company last year.
In contrast, when we review EGY stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 100% Sell, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 100% Sell. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Sell for it.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the EGY stock which is currently positioned at 0.28. It further provides that stock’s current price level is -6.86% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -11.94% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 29.54 while volatility remained at 3.07% over the past week which changes to 3.30% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.17, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.15.
Having a second look at VAALCO Energy, Inc (NYSE:EGY) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 971.08K, while it jumped to 769880 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 103.74 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 1.52% while it is 58.57% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2025-01-15, number of stock’s short shares was 4.01 million which implies a short ratio of 3.87. This shows down a 386.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In January the standing of shares short improved as it was 4.6 million in the previous month. Subtraction of -6.18% 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.
