With 1.06 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.05 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Industrial Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $15.94 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $13.98. The 52-week range on AMSC shows that it touched its highest point at $38.02 and its lowest point at $11.36 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $39.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.83.
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 AMSC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -15.87%, but this was down by -17.58% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -38.16% while six-month performance fell -27.79%. The stock gained 21.17% in the past year, while it has lost -35.85% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AMSC yields 0.08 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.57. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2933.33% for this year and -6.59% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 39.86 million AMSC shares are outstanding with a float of 37.72 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 2.91 million, which was 736.0 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Mr. Daniel Patrick McGahn as the firm’s Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. John W. Kosiba Jr. serves as its CFO, Senior VP & Treasurer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.71908 of AMSC’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, AMSC reported revenue of $61403000.0 and operating income of $1315000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $3111000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.06.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AMSC since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 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. With AMSC analysts setting a high price target of 40.0 and a low target of 38.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 39.0. Based on these targets, AMSC could surge 153.16% to reach the target high and rise by 140.51% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 146.84% 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 -$0.04749975 being high and -$0.07124962 being low. For AMSC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.063333. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.11 and the low estimate is $0.1. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.1.
