Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX: OPTT) is 4.11% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $0.12 and a high of $0.82 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The OPTT stock was last observed hovering at around $0.33 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it 0.0%.
Currently trading at $0.33, the stock is -7.83% and 40.53% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 4.29 million and changing -1.59% at the moment leaves the stock 47.15% off its SMA200. OPTT registered -5.43% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of 81.57%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $0.2308 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $0.2235.
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The stock witnessed a 111.30% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 102.84%, and is 14.16% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 13.06% over the week and 20.30% over the month.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) has around 43 employees, a market worth around $47.27M and $7.08M in sales. Profit margin for the company is -304.91%. Distance from 52-week low is 173.92% and -59.72% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-92.44%).
41.0 institutions hold shares in Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT), with institutional investors hold 3.52% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 146.04M, and float is at 129.89M with Short Float at 6.74%. Institutions hold 3.41% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 1.76 million shares valued at $0.34 million. The investor’s holdings represent 2.9894 of the OPTT Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 0.58 million shares valued at $0.11 million to account for 0.9809 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC which holds 0.48 million shares representing 0.8126 and valued at over $93686.0, while HRT FINANCIAL LP holds 0.3556 of the shares totaling 0.21 million with a market value of $40000.0.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by Slaiby Peter E., the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Slaiby Peter E. bought 35,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 25 ’24 at a price of $0.19 per share for a total of $6713.0. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 0.24 million shares.
Ocean Power Technologies disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Nov 13 ’24 that Cryan Terence James (Director) bought a total of 100,000 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Nov 13 ’24 and was made at $0.15 per share for $14800.0. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 0.36 million shares of the OPTT stock.
