U.S. Energy Corp. ($(NASDAQ:USEG)$) saw an upside of 17.74% to close Friday at $4.58 after adding $0.69 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 780,540 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $4.79 in the past week and touched a new high 5 times within the past 5 days. An average of 443,840 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 274,900.
USEG’s 1-month performance is 37.13% or $1.17 on its low of $3.29 reached on 02/07/22. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $2.91 and high of $7.91, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 03/04/22. YTD, USEG has achieved 40.06% or $1.31 and has reached a new high 11 times. However, the current price is down -42.10%% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
USEG stock has a beta of 0.82. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 4.30 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.46.
U.S. Energy Corp.’s quick ratio for the recent period was 6.20, with the current ratio over the same period at 6.20. . . In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 43.90%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is -81.85%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $0.63 million against revenue of $2.33 million.
Earnings Surprise
U.S. Energy Corp.’s cash and short-term investments amounted to $0.25 million against total debt of $0.26 million. Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 2375.0% to $80000.0, while revenue of -$0.21 million was 362.5% off the previous quarter. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $0.4 million. USEG stock balance sheet for the recent quarter shows that total liabilities totaled 2.92 million, with total debt at $0.26 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $4.68 million.
Technical Picture
Let’s look briefly at U.S. Energy Corp. (USEG) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 04 March was 76.22% to suggest the stock is trending Overbought, with historical volatility in this time period at 105.61%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $4.06, reflecting a +22.46% or $0.84 change from its current price. USEG is currently trading +37.13% above its 20-day SMA, +15.08% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 and SMA200 by +28.29% and +15.37% respectively.
Stochastic %K and %D was 62.10% and 54.56% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.39. The RSI (14) points at 72.16%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 85.42% with the period’s ATR at 0.34. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.13 and 0.30 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for U.S. Energy Corp. ($(NASDAQ: USEG)$), Global Hunter Securities downgraded it to a Neutral rating. They previously had a Accumulate rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for USEG stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate USEG as a “sell,”, while 0 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 1 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is USEG’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $5.00 and a high of $5.00, with their median price target at $5.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for U.S. Energy Corp. (USEG) stock is $5.00.
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