Aurora Cannabis Inc (NASDAQ:ACB) price on Wednesday, March 27, rose 12.83% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.75.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $4.21. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.83 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 0.52. Turning to its 52-week performance, $11.50 and $2.84 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ACB moved 43.50% over the past month.
Aurora Cannabis Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $74.72 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Jun 12, 2024 – Jun 17, 2024. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be -$0.17, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to -$0.92 and about -$0.32 for fiscal year 2025.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $51.59 million for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $50.78 million and $53.6 million respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 10.10% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ACB is a 50% Sell. 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.
ACB’s current price about 39.91% and 28.46% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 66.10, while 7-day volatility ratio is 19.66% and 10.87% in the 30-day chart. Further, Aurora Cannabis Inc (ACB) has a beta value of 2.33, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.44.
If we refocus on Aurora Cannabis Inc (NASDAQ:ACB), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 5.92 million over the past 10 days and 1.54 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 34.53 million shares.
The 0.88% of Aurora Cannabis Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 30.36% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.55 million on Feb 29, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 3.66. The data shows that as of Feb 29, 2024 short interest in Aurora Cannabis Inc (ACB) stood at 6.11% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 3.62 million registered in Jan 31, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock -0.25% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ACB stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
