B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 2.18% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $22.96.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $22.47. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.53. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $60.72, and the low was $14.46. On the whole, RILY has fluctuated by 10.12% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of B. Riley Financial Inc currently standing at about $702.12 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for May 02, 2024 – May 06, 2024. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 3.50, with its dividend yield at 15.24%.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that RILY’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of RILY currently trading nearly 13.78% and 17.42% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 60.21, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 9.17% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 11.24%. Furthermore, B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY)’s beta value is 1.53, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.13.
A comparison of B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. RILY showed an intraday change of 2.18% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -19.13%%.
Data on historical trading for B. Riley Financial Inc (NASDAQ:RILY) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.01 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.36 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 30.58 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 46.88% of B. Riley Financial Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 50.48% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 12.39 million shares as on Mar 15, 2024, resulting in a short ratio of 6.2. According to the data, the short interest in B. Riley Financial Inc (RILY) stood at 40.51% of shares outstanding as of Mar 15, 2024; the number of short shares registered in Feb 15, 2024 reached 11.33 million. The stock has risen by 9.39% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the RILY stock heading into the next quarter.
