Applied Dna Sciences Inc (NASDAQ: APDN) – Not A Clear Buying Opportunity?

Applied Dna Sciences Inc (APDN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $0.33, with 4.92 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 -95.79% during that period and on May 29, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -36.88%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 6.50M shares, out of which, 6.42M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -43.75% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -63.73%. Year-to-date (YTD), APDN shares are showing a performance of -96.80% which decreased to -99.67% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $0.50 but also hit the highest price of $177.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Applied Dna Sciences Inc shares is 1.43 million. The stock is currently trading -54.40% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -69.87% for SMA50 and it goes to -98.19% lower than SMA200.

Applied Dna Sciences Inc (NASDAQ: APDN) currently have 6.50M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 6.16% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $2.12M and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.13. It has posted earnings per share of -$35.78 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 4.27 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.04. 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 22.01% while standing at 10.77% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 73.63% while it is estimated to increase by 77.08% in next year.

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.

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