Antero Resources Corp (NYSE:AR) price on current trading day, fall -3.59% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $35.71.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $37.04. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 197.84. Turning to its 52-week performance, $41.53 and $24.53 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, AR moved -4.06% over the past month.
Antero Resources Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $11.11 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.29B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.17B and 1.35B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 14.95% 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 5.4B, representing a 24.77% jump 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 AR is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
10 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 7 recommend AR as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.72, with AR’s current price about -7.62% and -3.65% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 37.31, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.49% and 3.42% in the 30-day chart. Further, Antero Resources Corp (AR) has a beta value of 3.40, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.43. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $33, forecast between a low of $29 and high of $46. Looking at the price targets, the low is 18.79% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -28.82%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 7.59% jump to $33 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Antero Resources Corp (NYSE:AR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.29 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 311.17 million shares.
The 7.35% of Antero Resources Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 84.76% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 1.88% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the AR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
