Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson ADR (NASDAQ:ERIC) price on Wednesday, May 21, rose 1.03% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $8.86.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $8.77. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 191.77. Turning to its 52-week performance, $8.90 and $5.73 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ERIC moved 5.10% over the past month.
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $27.21 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in June. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.27, with its dividend yield at 3.08%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ERIC is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a Hold as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
9 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 7 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 2 recommend ERIC as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
ERIC’s current price about 5.74% and 10.02% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 69.62, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.54% and 1.52% in the 30-day chart. Further, Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson ADR (ERIC) has a beta value of 0.98, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.18. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $6.9399999999999995, forecast between a low of $6.1 and high of $7.78. Looking at the price targets, the low is 31.15% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 12.19%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 21.67% jump to $6.9399999999999995 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson ADR (NASDAQ:ERIC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 26.72 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 3.07 billion shares.
The 0.15% of Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson ADR’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 12.99% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 9.93% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ERIC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
