Houston American Energy Corp (AMEX:HUSA) price on Friday, May 02, rose 5.54% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.61.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.58, moving within a range at $0.571 and $0.6264. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.582. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.20 and $0.50 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HUSA moved -18.67% over the past month.
Houston American Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $9.57 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2012-Nov-09.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HUSA is a 50% 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.
3 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend HUSA as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
HUSA’s current price about 5.84% and -27.03% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 41.57, while 7-day volatility ratio is 9.17% and 11.19% in the 30-day chart. Further, Houston American Energy Corp (HUSA) has a beta value of 0.48, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.06.
If we refocus on Houston American Energy Corp (AMEX:HUSA), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.27 over the past 10 days and 399.93K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 13.09 million shares.
The 19.33% of Houston American Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 17.64% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.53 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.32. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Houston American Energy Corp (HUSA) stood at 403.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 0.88 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -52.71% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HUSA stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
