Compass Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CMPX) price on Thursday, March 28, fall -3.41% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.98.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $2.05. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.57. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.62 and $1.15 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CMPX moved 13.79% over the past month.
Compass Therapeutics Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $272.43 million. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be -$0.11, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to -$0.48 and about -$0.5 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -45.50% for 2024 and -4.20% for the next financial 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 CMPX is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in Hold category.
CMPX’s current price about -2.89% and 14.31% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 50.42, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.36% and 9.59% in the 30-day chart. Further, Compass Therapeutics Inc (CMPX) has a beta value of 0.61, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.18.
If we refocus on Compass Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CMPX), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.37 million over the past 10 days and 517.50K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 127.67 million shares.
The 40.30% of Compass Therapeutics Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 40.89% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 1.88 million on Mar 15, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 4.55. The data shows that as of Mar 15, 2024 short interest in Compass Therapeutics Inc (CMPX) stood at 1.37% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 1.97 million registered in Feb 15, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock 26.92% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CMPX stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
