With 0.73 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.7 million shares. The 52-week range on CMP shows that it touched its highest point at $23.37 and its lowest point at $7.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $15.50. With its current market cap of 403.84 million, CMP has annualized dividend of $0.15 while the current yield stands at 1.54%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.15.
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 CMP was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -17.26%, but this was down by -16.55% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -38.03% while six-month performance rose 5.76%. The stock lost -57.32% in the past year, while it has lost -13.51% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CMP yields -3.74 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.55. For the next quarter, that number is 0.00. This implies an EPS growth rate of -955.23% for this year and 181.10% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 41.47 million CMP shares are outstanding with a float of 33.52 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 CMP since 3 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 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 -$0.25317 being high and -$0.26983 being low. For CMP, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.2603. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.35 and the low estimate is -$0.39. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.04.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded CMP 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.
