Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, April 16, with the stock price down by -5.19% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $0.41.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $0.43, falling within a range of $0.3907 and $0.4192. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.517. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $1.75, and the low was $0.12. On the whole, OPTT has fluctuated by -19.30% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Ocean Power Technologies currently standing at about $69.83 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in May.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that OPTT’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 Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of OPTT currently trading nearly -6.46% and -26.57% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.10, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 12.98% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 13.68%. Furthermore, Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT)’s beta value is 2.62, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.06.
A comparison of Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. OPTT showed an intraday change of -5.19% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 76.48%%.
Data on historical trading for Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 4.7 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 8.42 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 170.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 10.99% of Ocean Power Technologies’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 5.18% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 11.97 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.27. According to the data, the short interest in Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) stood at 707.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 8.06 million. The stock has fallen by -60.21% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the OPTT stock heading into the next quarter.
