What’s happening at Central Puerto S.A. (NYSE:CEPU)? What made the stock one of the top performing stock today? The company is indeed among the top gainers of the stock market, skyrocketing 20.13% (or 1.24 points) to $7.40 from its previous close of $6.16. So is it the right moment to buy?
The shares had an increased trading volume of 1,158,535 contracts this session compared to the average daily volume of last 10 days of 148,810 contracts and they had an increased trading volume compared to the average daily volume of last 3 months of 260,398 contracts.
The indicator of a company’s profitability, the earnings per share ratio is -0.07. 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 150.5M outstanding stocks.
The closing market price for this trading session was 63.36% over 52 weeks minimum price of $4.53 and 3.90% under 52 weeks maximum price of $7.70. Also the price is 17.68% greater than 200 day average of $6.29 and 21.48% greater than 50 day average of $6.09.
At post-market close the stock price was $7.48, thus increasing a further 1.08% (or 0.08 points) with respect to regular market close.
Looking at the trading signals for Central Puerto S.A. 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 68.56. According to standard usage, it’s value between 30 and 70 suggests that CEPU 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 85.71. 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 0.06. The MACD is above the zero line, which means that the short-term average value of CEPU is above that of the long-term average, thus implying an upward momentum. Besides, its signal, given by nine-day EMA of the MACD, stands at -0.04. According to standard usage, this is a bullish signal, which suggests that the price of CEPU asset is likely to experience upward momentum.
Latest news that might have contributed to the great perfomance of CEPU today are:
- With an Investment of US$160 Million, Central Puerto Launches the Project of Closing Cycle of Brigadier López Thermoelectric Plant, Located in Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe, published on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:40:00 +0000
- Central Puerto S.A. (NYSE:CEPU) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript, published on Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:59:20 +0000
- Central Puerto announces Results for the Quarter and Nine-Month Period Ended on September 30, 2023, published on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000