Vascular Biogenics Ltd. (NASDAQ:VBLT) shares, rose in value on Friday, 06/16/23, with the stock price down by -3.85% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $0.24.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $0.25, falling within a range of $0.2315 and $0.248. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $2.20, and the low was $0.10. On the whole, VBLT has fluctuated by 27.39% over the past month.
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With the market capitalization of Vascular Biogenics Ltd. currently standing at about $17.88 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for Aug 14, 2023 – Aug 18, 2023.
Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that VBLT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
1 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 1 analyst(s), 0 recommend it as a Buy and 0 called the VBLT stock Overweight. In the meantime, 0 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 0 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of VBLT currently trading nearly 7.21% and 19.21% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 57.29, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 9.17% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 10.64%. Furthermore, Vascular Biogenics Ltd. (VBLT)’s beta value is 0.70, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.02. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $5.00 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $5.00 and a high of $5.00. Based on these price targets, the low is -1983.33% off current price, whereas the price has to move -1983.33% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $5.00 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -1983.33% from the current levels.
A comparison of Vascular Biogenics Ltd. (VBLT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. VBLT showed an intraday change of -3.85% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -82.48%%. In comparison, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. (MACK) has moved higher at 0.56% on the day and was up 123.70% over the past 12 months. Other than that, the overall performance of the S&P 500 during the last trading session shows that it lost -0.37%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Slipped by -0.32%.
Data on historical trading for Vascular Biogenics Ltd. (NASDAQ:VBLT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 2.17 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.35 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 77.80 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 12.87% of Vascular Biogenics Ltd.’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 17.60% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 0.72 million shares as on May 30, 2023, resulting in a short ratio of 0.84. According to the data, the short interest in Vascular Biogenics Ltd. (VBLT) stood at 1.03% of shares outstanding as of May 30, 2023; the number of short shares registered in Apr 27, 2023 reached 0.37 million. The stock has risen by 100.00% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the VBLT stock heading into the next quarter.