In year 2019, Obsidian Energy Ltd. (OBE) was loser performer. Year 2019 was very bad year as Obsidian Energy Ltd. (OBE) observed year to date 2019 performance at -74.48%. YTD return is simply the amount of profit (or loss) generated by an investment since the beginning of the current calendar year, usually January 1st or else the first trading date of the year or first day of the fiscal year. YTD calculations are commonly used by investors and analysts in the assessment of portfolio performances because of their simplicity.
Now looking into the performance part of the article on Obsidian Energy Ltd. stock we should check the stock’s actual performance in the past trading period.
Performance of the OBE Stock:
Obsidian Energy Ltd. revealed performance of 11.18% during the period of last 5 trading days and shown last 12 months performance of -74.48%. The stock moved to -35.14% in last six months and it maintained for the month at 51.52%. The stock changed about -12.86% over the last three months. The stock is now standing at -81.30% from 52 week-high and is situated at 67.52% above from 52-week low price.
Obsidian Energy Ltd. (OBE) registered volume of 275001 shares in most recent trading session as compared to an average volume of 216.85K shares. It shows that the shares were traded in the last day of 2019and traders shown interest in OBE stock. Listed Shares of the Obsidian Energy Ltd. (OBE) surged 8.03% to trade at $0.72 on Tuesday trading session (12/31/2019). It has a market capitalization of $56.20M. Knowing about the market capitalization of a company helps investor to determine the company size, market value and the risk. The stock EPS is $-3.74 against its recent stock value of $0.72 per share.
First we will be looking for the boiling points and excitability of Obsidian Energy Ltd. (OBE) stock, it purposes common trait for traders and value investors.
Volatility Indicators for Obsidian Energy Ltd.:
Volatility of the Obsidian Energy Ltd. remained at 9.62% over last week and shows 11.40% volatility in last month. In addition to number of shares traded in last few trading sessions volatility also tells about the fluctuation level of the stock price, commonly a high volatility is the friend of day traders. Volatility is also measured by ATR an exponential moving average (14-days) of the True Ranges. Currently, the ATR value of company’s stock is situated at 0.06. Beta value is also an important factor that helps to know how much the Market risk lies with the trading of subjective stock. Beta indicator of this stock lies at 3.23. In case you don’t know, when beta is higher than 1 then risk is higher and if beta is lower than 1, then risk will be low.
Technical Indicators of Obsidian Energy Ltd. Stock:
RSI momentum oscillator is the most common technical indicator of a stock to determine about the momentum of the shares price and whether the stock trading at normal range or its becoming oversold or overbought. It also helps to measure Speed and change of stock price movement. RSI reading varies between 0 and 100. Commonly when RSI goes below 30 then stock is oversold and stock is overbought when it goes above 70. So as currently the Relative Strength Index (RSI-14) reading of Obsidian Energy Ltd. stock is 56.76.
Although it is important to look for trades in a direction of bigger trends when stocks are indicating an opposite short-term movement. Like looking for overbought conditions when bigger trend remained down and oversold conditions when bigger trend is up. In order to check a bigger trend for OBE a 14-day RSI can fell short and considered as a short-term indicator. So in that situation a Simple moving average of a stock can also be an important element to look in addition to RSI.
The share price of OBE is currently up 7.64% from its 20 days moving average and trading 14.69% up the 50 days moving average. The stock price has been seen performing along underground drift from its 200 days moving average with -40.06%. Moving averages are an important analytical tool used to identify current price trends and the potential for a change in an established trend. The simplest form of using a simple moving average in analysis is using it to quickly identify if a security is in an uptrend or downtrend.
Profitability Spotlight for Obsidian Energy Ltd.:
Gross margin is detected at 60.80% that represents the percent of total sales revenue that the company retains after direct cost of goods sold. Net profit margin of the company is -99.20% that shows how much the company is actually earning by every dollar of sales.
Return on Investment (ROI) of stock is -11.10%. ROI ratio tells about the efficiency of a number of investments in a company. Return on Assets (ROA) which shows how much the company is profitable as compared to its total assets is observed at -13.90%. Return on Equity (ROE), which tells about the profitability of the corporation by evaluating the profit it generates in ratio to the money shareholders have invested, is noted at -20.40%.
Analysts Estimation on Stock:
The current analyst consensus rating stood at 2.2 on shares (where according to data provided by FINVIZ, 1.0 Strong Buy, 2.0 Buy, 3.0 Hold, 4.0 Sell, 5.0 Strong Sell). Analysts opinion is also an important factor to conclude a stock’s trend. Many individual analysts and firms give their ratings on a stock. While Looking ahead of 52-week period, the mean Target Price set by analysts is $1.46.