With 1.27 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.63 million shares. The 52-week range on ASTL shows that it touched its highest point at $12.14 and its lowest point at $6.67 during that stretch. With its current market cap of 710.06 million, ASTL has annualized dividend of $0.15 while the current yield stands at 2.21%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.47.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of ASTL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -7.61%, but this was down by -21.39% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -36.51% while six-month performance fell -31.73%. The stock lost -19.05% in the past year, while it has lost -30.47% so far this year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 104.42 million ASTL shares are outstanding with a float of 95.08 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for ASTL since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.726 being high and $0.63401 being low. For ASTL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.6727. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded ASTL stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
