Knightscope Inc (NASDAQ:KSCP) price closed higher on Tuesday, March 26, jumping 12.49% above its previous close.
A look at the daily price movement shows that the last close reads $0.54. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 2.10. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $2.24 and 52-week low of $0.36. The stock added 15.14% on its value in the past month.
Knightscope Inc, which has a market valuation of $50.22 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Apr 20, 2024 – Apr 26, 2024. Analysts tracking KSCP have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.06 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$0.32 for the year 2024 and up to -$0.23 for 2024.
On average, analysts have forecast the company’s revenue for the quarter will hit $2.9 million, with the likely lows of $2.9 million and highs of $2.9 million. Staying with the analyst view, there is a consensus estimate of $12.7 million for the company’s annual revenue 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 KSCP a short term outlook of 50% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 50% Sell.
The overview shows that KSCP’s price is at present 29.44% off the SMA20 and 19.10% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 69.20, with weekly volatility standing at 10.47%. The indicator jumps to 9.21% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Knightscope Inc (NASDAQ:KSCP)’s beta value is holding at 2.11, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.04.
An analysis of the Knightscope Inc (NASDAQ:KSCP) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 1.41 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 2.04 million.
Current records show that the company has 82.73M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 14.30% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 5.44%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Feb 29, 2024, stood at 7.79 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 7.15. From this we can glean that short interest is 8.19% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in February rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 7.57 million. But the 1.17% upside, 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.
