Aspen Aerogels Inc (NYSE:ASPN) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -4.09% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $6.09.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $6.35, moving within a range at $5.945 and $6.34. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.72. Turning to its 52-week performance, $33.15 and $4.16 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ASPN moved 18.02% over the past month.
Aspen Aerogels Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $500.44 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-07.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ASPN is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 9 recommend ASPN as a Buy and 0 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.
ASPN’s current price about 8.44% and 2.45% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 54.05, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.43% and 7.37% in the 30-day chart. Further, Aspen Aerogels Inc (ASPN) has a beta value of 2.72, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.47. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $32, forecast between a low of $18 and high of $38. Looking at the price targets, the low is -195.57% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -523.97%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -425.45% jump to $32 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Aspen Aerogels Inc (NYSE:ASPN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 3.5 over the past 10 days and 1.95 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 82.17 million shares.
The 1.81% of Aspen Aerogels Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 87.89% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.39 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 4.97. The data shows that as of 2025-04-30 short interest in Aspen Aerogels Inc (ASPN) stood at 1220.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 9.2 million registered in 2025-03-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -48.74% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ASPN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
