Applied Dna Sciences Inc (APDN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $0.20, with 8.1 million shares of worth about $1.62 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -51.18% during that period and on January 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 12.99%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 55.19M shares, out of which, 55.17M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.52% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.95%. Year-to-date (YTD), APDN shares are showing a performance of -1.96% which decreased to -98.35% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.12 but also hit the highest price of $14.40 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Applied Dna Sciences Inc shares is 6.00 million. The stock is currently trading 0.82% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 6.84% for SMA50 and it goes to -84.09% lower than SMA200.
Applied Dna Sciences Inc (NASDAQ: APDN) currently have 55.19M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 11.42% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.04M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.35. It has posted earnings per share of -$6.89 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 3.17 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.08. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for APDN, volatility over the week remained 12.75% while standing at 13.42% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Applied Dna Sciences Inc (APDN) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.33 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -0.33 and it is 0 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.33 which is -0.33 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -5.51 in the same quarter a year ago.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by ROTH Capital on February 12, 2021 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $24 to it. Coverage by H.C. Wainwright stated Applied Dna Sciences Inc (APDN) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on January 14, 2021, suggesting a price target of $14 for the stock. On December 18, 2020, H.C. Wainwright Reiterated their recommendations, while on July 20, 2020, H.C. Wainwright Reiterated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $22. Stock get a Buy rating from H.C. Wainwright on July 02, 2020.
