Houston American Energy Corp (AMEX:HUSA) price on Thursday, July 03, fall -8.54% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $9.42.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $10.3, moving within a range at $9.1 and $10.095. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.382. Turning to its 52-week performance, $32.00 and $3.85 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HUSA moved 96.25% over the past month.
Houston American Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $17.98 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2012-Nov-10.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HUSA 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 50% Sell category.
3 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, 2 recommend HUSA as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 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.
HUSA’s current price about -14.29% and 17.45% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 48.04, while 7-day volatility ratio is 14.27% and 28.62% in the 30-day chart. Further, Houston American Energy Corp (HUSA) has a beta value of 0.81.
If we refocus on Houston American Energy Corp (AMEX:HUSA), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.12 over the past 10 days and 1.38 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 1.91 million shares.
The 2.50% of Houston American Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 10.29% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.39 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 0.24. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Houston American Energy Corp (HUSA) stood at 2467.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 38762.0 registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -25.24% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HUSA stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
