COPT Defense Properties (CDP) saw an uptrend of 1.81% in the recent trading with $28.09 being its most recent. The current price level -17.91% lower than the highest price of $34.22 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 17.43% higher than the lowest price of $23.92 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on CDP appeared in (Business Wire) under the title “COPT Defense Declares Third Quarter 2025 Common Dividend”.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -1.87% below one month high and is +4.38% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, COPT Defense Properties (CDP)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $28.07 while that of 5-day is reading $27.87.
Daily rise and fall of price influence many of the traders, and in order to overcome the fluctuating effect of that and to watch the stock closely, traders focus more on stock’s 200-day moving average. At various points in trading activity, investors are more likely to be making use of that measure as a strong indicator in figuring out their support and resistance levels, and CDP’s SMA-200 as of now is $28.59.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 2 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.86 for the stock.
COPT Defense Properties Earnings – What Happened With CDP
Coming around sales and income figures on CDP Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. COPT Defense Properties (CDP) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 1.59% for net revenue.
CDP – COPT Defense Properties Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.32 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. COPT Defense Properties (CDP) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 1.59% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.33.
COPT Defense Properties – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 112.93 million. CDP does have institutional investors; and they hold 108.33% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. was the top most holder in COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) with an ownership of 18.76 million shares of the company or 16.7026 of the stake worth $469.46 million. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 15.0957 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $424.29 million for having 16.95 million shares in hand.
STATE STREET CORP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 5.6749 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 452.0 institutions which have possession in CDP’s shares.
Key Metrics forCDP
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, COPT Defense Properties has a debt to equity ratio of 1.66.
Technical Analysis of COPT Defense Properties (NYSE:CDP) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for COPT Defense Properties (CDP), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 766,255 shares. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Buy with its 50-day average volume of 802,554 shares. And to end with, CDP’s 100-day average volume are 871,758 shares.
