Some Investing Thoughts On PureCycle Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: PCT)

PureCycle Technologies Inc (PCT) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $6.85, with 5.25 million shares of worth about $35.99 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -38.34% during that period and on April 24, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 8.73%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 164.28M shares, out of which, 164.18M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 12.11% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -12.07%. Year-to-date (YTD), PCT shares are showing a performance of -33.17% which increased to 35.91% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $4.50 but also hit the highest price of $15.58 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for PureCycle Technologies Inc shares is 2.64 million. The stock is currently trading 6.22% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -12.36% for SMA50 and it goes to -23.47% lower than SMA200.

PureCycle Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: PCT) currently have 164.28M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 70.21% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.23B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.73. It has posted earnings per share of -$1.75 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.50 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.24. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for PCT, volatility over the week remained 9.95% while standing at 11.14% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that PureCycle Technologies Inc (PCT) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.23 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is -0.2 and it is -0.59 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.27 which is -0.2 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 -0.39 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 55.59% while it is estimated to increase by 48.34% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 41.57% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -514.21% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

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 TD Cowen on November 20, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $10 and $15 to it. Coverage by Cantor Fitzgerald stated PureCycle Technologies Inc (PCT) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on October 18, 2024, suggesting a price target of $14 for the stock. On August 09, 2024, TD Cowen Reiterated their recommendations, while on January 03, 2024, Craig Hallum Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $4. Stock get a Neutral rating from ROTH MKM on December 19, 2023.

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