Ocular Therapeutix Inc (NASDAQ:OCUL) price closed higher on Friday, November 17, jumping 9.62% above its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $2.08, with intraday deals fluctuated between $2.05 and $2.30. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.18. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $7.96 and 52-week low of $2.00. The stock subtracted -1.51% on its value in the past month.
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Ocular Therapeutix Inc, which has a market valuation of $181.08 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Nov 07, 2023. Analysts tracking OCUL have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.33 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$1.05 for the year 2023 and up to -$1.05 for 2024.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $15.87 million, with the likely lows of $15.5 million and highs of $16.4 million. The average estimate suggests sales growth for the quarter will likely rise by 12.70% when compared to those recorded in the same quarter in the last financial year. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $59.51 million for the company’s annual revenue in 2023. Per this projection, the revenue is forecast to grow 15.60% above that which the company brought in 2023.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give OCUL a short term outlook of 100% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 100% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.
Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 8 analysts have assigned OCUL a recommendation rating as follows: 1 rate it as a Hold; 6 advise Buy while 1 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Ocular Therapeutix Inc (OCUL) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
The overview shows that OCUL’s price is at present -9.59% off the SMA20 and -20.26% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 42.49, with weekly volatility standing at 11.82%. The indicator jumps to 11.27% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Ocular Therapeutix Inc (NASDAQ:OCUL)’s beta value is holding at 1.03, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.26.
Turning out attention to how the Ocular Therapeutix Inc stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: OCUL’s stock is 9.62% on the day and -25.49% in the past 12 months, while KalVista Pharmaceuticals Inc. (KALV) traded 6.70%% in the last session and was positioned 59.53% up on its price 12 months ago. Turning out attention to how the Ocular Therapeutix Inc stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: OCUL’s stock is 9.62% on the day and -25.49% in the past 12 months, while KalVista Pharmaceuticals Inc. (KALV) traded 6.70%% in the last session and was positioned 59.53% up on its price 12 months ago. Another comparison is with Anika Therapeutics Inc. (ANIK) whose stock price was up 0.29%% in the last trading session, and has flourished -31.22% over the past year. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has rallied 0.13% in last trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial also saw a positive session on the day with 0.01%.
An analysis of the Ocular Therapeutix Inc (NASDAQ:OCUL) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 804.77K. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 1.21 million.
Current records show that the company has 77.20M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 5.33% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 50.95%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Oct 30, 2023, stood at 4.76 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 7.07. From this we can glean that short interest is 5.99% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in October rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 4.09 million. But the -18.86% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of last trading, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
