What’s happening at American States Water Company (NYSE:AWR)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 18.62% (or 14.60 points) to $93.03 from its previous close of $78.43. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 692,985 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 356,485 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 265,383 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is 2.28. 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 positive and tells you exactly how much money the company earned per share of its 36.8M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 42.88% over 52 weeks minimum price of $65.11 and 3.09% under 52 weeks maximum price of $96.00. Also the price is 5.66% greater than 200 day average of $88.05 and 7.92% greater than 50 day average of $86.21.
At post-market close the stock price was $91.83, thus decreasing -1.29% (or -1.20 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for American States Water Company 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 57.78. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that AWR 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 97.97. 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 -2.28. The MACD is below the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of AWR 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 -2.44. According to standard usage, this is a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of AWR asset is likely to experience upward momentum.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of AWR today are:
- How Does American States Water's (NYSE:AWR) P/E Compare To Its Industry, After The Share Price Drop?, published on Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:19:32 +0000
- American States Water Company Announces CPUC’s Approval to Defer the Cost of Capital Application at Golden State Water Company, published on Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:00:00 +0000
- Edited Transcript of AWR earnings conference call or presentation 25-Feb-20 7:00pm GMT, published on Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:48:06 +0000