COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price up by 0.81% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $27.30.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $27.08, falling within a range of $26.868 and $27.39. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.982 whereas the PE ratio was 22.29 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $34.22, and the low was $22.20. On the whole, CDP has fluctuated by 1.22% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of COPT Defense Properties currently standing at about $6.15 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-05. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.89, with its dividend yield at 3.24%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 756.86M, with a low estimate of 171.8M and a high estimate of 203.19M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 186.37M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CDP’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% 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 3.90, with the price of CDP currently trading nearly 1.31% and -2.13% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 50.62, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.81% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.07%. Furthermore, COPT Defense Properties (CDP)’s beta value is 0.96, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.56.
A comparison of COPT Defense Properties (CDP) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CDP showed an intraday change of 0.81% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 15.48%%.
Data on historical trading for COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.95 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.04 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 112.70 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.40% of COPT Defense Properties’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 107.91% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.3 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 4.13. According to the data, the short interest in COPT Defense Properties (CDP) stood at 682.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 5.86 million. The stock has fallen by -11.79% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CDP stock heading into the next quarter.
