With 0.93 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.67 million shares. During the session, the Semiconductors company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $3.799 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $3.4601. The 52-week range on POET shows that it touched its highest point at $7.79 and its lowest point at $1.00 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $6.25. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.49.
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 POET was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -16.40%, but this was up by 6.38% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -47.27% while six-month performance fell -16.40%. The stock gained 167.88% in the past year, while it has lost -38.32% so far this year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 78.03 million POET shares are outstanding with a float of 77.25 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 3.61 million, which was 473.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Dr. Suresh V. Venkatesan Ph.D. as the firm’s Executive Chairman & CEO, Mr. Thomas R. Mika MBA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.07123 of POET’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, POET reported revenue of $3685.0 and operating income of -$6746556.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was -$6004264.0 and diluted EPS was -$0.2.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With POET analysts setting a high price target of 7.0 and a low target of 5.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 6.29. Based on these targets, POET could surge 90.74% to reach the target high and rise by 49.86% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 71.39% from current levels.
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 -$0.26267 being high and -$0.39789 being low. For POET, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.35.
