Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -3.67% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $2.36.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $2.45, moving within a range at $2.305 and $2.535. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.698. Turning to its 52-week performance, $5.79 and $0.83 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VUZI moved 42.17% over the past month.
Vuzix Corporation’s market cap currently stands at around $179.93 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-11.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VUZI is a Hold. 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 Hold category.
1 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 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend VUZI 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.
VUZI’s current price about 10.76% and 15.67% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 56.93, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.53% and 9.60% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vuzix Corporation (VUZI) has a beta value of 1.57, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.21. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $3, forecast between a low of $3 and high of $3. Looking at the price targets, the low is -27.12% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -27.12%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -27.12% jump to $3 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.0 over the past 10 days and 1.51 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 76.24 million shares.
The 17.27% of Vuzix Corporation’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 21.83% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 16.05 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 12.14. The data shows that as of 2025-04-30 short interest in Vuzix Corporation (VUZI) stood at 2248.9999000000003 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 15.91 million registered in 2025-03-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -40.10% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VUZI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
