An Analysis Of Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc’s (CKPT) Stock Behavior

Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CKPT) concluded the trading at $3.98 on Wednesday, March 12 with a fall of -0.50% from its closing price on previous day.

Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $4.00 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.417 with its price kept floating in the range of $3.98 and $4.02 on the day. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that CKPT hit a high price of $4.50 and saw its price falling to a low level of $1.38 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came adding 23.22% in its value.

With its current market valuation of $194.35 million, Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc is set to declare its quarterly results on 2024-Nov-11. Analysts are in estimates of 0 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to 0 for current year with estimates of that growing to 0.27 in next year.

The average estimate is representing a decrease of -100.00% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year.

In contrast, when we review CKPT stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of Hold, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 100% Buy for it.

According to ratings assigned by 3 analysts at the scale of 1 to 5 with 1.00 representing a strong buy and 5.00 suggesting a strong sell; 0 of them are recommending Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc (CKPT) as a Hold, while 3 are in view that stock is a Buy. Recommendation by 0 analysts for the stock is an Underweight while number of those analysts who rated the stock as an Overweight is 0, whereas 0 of them are considering the stock as a Sell. When taken as whole, stock gets a rating of Overweight and that encourages the investors to exploit the opportunity and build their stake up in the company.

Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the CKPT stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is 29.53% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is 26.28% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 66.72 while volatility remained at 3.83% over the past week which changes to 6.41% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.20, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.28.

Having a second look at Checkpoint Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CKPT) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 2.52 million, while it jumped to 8432450 when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 45.10 million.

The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 26.43% while it is 22.07% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of 2025-02-28, number of stock’s short shares was 7.15 million which implies a short ratio of 9.81. This shows down a 1575.00 of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In February the standing of shares short improved as it was 7.76 million in the previous month. Addition of 24.37% 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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