What’s happening at AbCellera Biologics Inc. (NasdaqGS:ABCL)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 11.85% (or 0.80 points) to $7.55 from its previous close of $6.75. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 5,409,217 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 2,246,350 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 3,066,191 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is -0.19. This value shows how much money a company makes for each share of its stock. A higher EPS indicates more value because investors will pay more for a company with higher profits. This is negative and tells you exactly how much money the company lost per share of its 288.7M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 36.53% over 52 weeks minimum price of $5.53 and 49.57% under 52 weeks maximum price of $14.97. Also the price is -16.96% less than 200 day average of $9.09 and 12.96% greater than 50 day average of $6.68.
At post-market close the stock price was $7.60, thus increasing a further 0.66% (or 0.05 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for AbCellera Biologics Inc. over last 6 months of daily time series of prices, the two-week relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator that measures the size of recent changes of price to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions, stands at 62.88. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that ABCL stock is currently neutral, and shares are stable in terms of price movement. The stochastic oscillator reading, another momentum indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, stands at 84.39. According to standard usage, it’s value greater than 80 is considered in the overbought range. But let’s keep in mind that even stochastic readings very close to thresholds are not indicative of imminent reversal. In fact very strong trends can maintain overbought or oversold conditions for an extended period, but changes in the stochastic oscillator might suggest future trend shifts.
Another important signal comes from the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), a trend-following momentum indicator. It helps investors understand whether the bullish or bearish movement in the price is strengthening or weakening. Traders keep constatly an eye on the move of the MACD above or below the zero line due to the fact that the reading is an indicator of the position of the 12-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) relative to the 26-period EMA. It currently stands at -0.02. The MACD is below the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of ABCL is below that of the long-term average, thus implying a downward momentum. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at -0.05. According to standard usage, this is a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of ABCL asset is likely to experience upward momentum.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of ABCL today are:
- AbCellera to Report Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results on August 3, 2023, published on Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:05:00 +0000
- AbCellera Biologics Insiders Added US$4.2m Of Stock To Their Holdings , published on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:52:32 +0000
- AbCellera to Present at the Goldman Sachs 44th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on June 13, 2023, published on Mon, 29 May 2023 20:05:00 +0000