Lightwave Logic Inc (NASDAQ:LWLG) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 4.60% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $1.31.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $1.25, falling within a range of $1.26 and $1.345. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 2.285. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $4.23, and the low was $0.79. On the whole, LWLG has fluctuated by 0.58% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Lightwave Logic Inc currently standing at about $163.49 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2014-Mar-31.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that LWLG’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of LWLG currently trading nearly 3.25% and 15.15% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 56.05, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.57% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 8.62%. Furthermore, Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)’s beta value is 2.40.
A comparison of Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. LWLG showed an intraday change of 4.60% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -37.74%%.
Data on historical trading for Lightwave Logic Inc (NASDAQ:LWLG) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.49 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.13 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 124.65 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.31% of Lightwave Logic Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 26.05% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 21.29 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 18.61. According to the data, the short interest in Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG) stood at 1715.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 19.63 million. The stock has fallen by -57.27% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the LWLG stock heading into the next quarter.
