Universe Pharmaceuticals INC (NASDAQ:UPC) price on Thursday, March 20, fall -9.18% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.09.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.10, moving within a range at $0.0811 and $0.089. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.551. Turning to its 52-week performance, $64.80 and $0.09 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, UPC moved -40.43% over the past month.
Universe Pharmaceuticals INC’s market cap currently stands at around $0.77 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in April.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that UPC is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
UPC’s current price about -30.17% and -68.06% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 27.56, while 7-day volatility ratio is 11.86% and 16.19% in the 30-day chart. Further, Universe Pharmaceuticals INC (UPC) has a beta value of 1.59, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.03.
If we refocus on Universe Pharmaceuticals INC (NASDAQ:UPC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.37 over the past 10 days and 12.36 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 8.66 million shares.
The 1.60% of Universe Pharmaceuticals INC’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 6.51% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 55577.0 on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 0.0. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Universe Pharmaceuticals INC (UPC) stood at 37.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5267.0 registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -85.41% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the UPC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
