China Automotive Systems Inc (CAAS) saw an uptrend of 6.71% in the recent trading with $4.45 being its most recent. The current price level -17.13% lower than the highest price of $5.37 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 27.14% higher than the lowest price of $3.50 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on CAAS appeared in (Associated Press Finance) under the title “China Automotive Systems: Q3 Earnings Snapshot”.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -2.20% below one month high and is +10.15% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, China Automotive Systems Inc (CAAS)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $4.49 while that of 5-day is reading $4.24.
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 CAAS’s SMA-200 as of now is $4.25.
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. 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 1.00 for the stock.
China Automotive Systems Inc Earnings – What Happened With CAAS
Coming around sales and income figures on CAAS 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.
CAAS – China Automotive Systems Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.24.
China Automotive Systems Inc – 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 30.17 million. CAAS does have institutional investors; and they hold 4.34% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC was the top most holder in China Automotive Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CAAS) with an ownership of 0.42 million shares of the company or 1.3914 of the stake worth $1.49 million. The filing also reveals BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 0.9147 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $0.98 million for having 0.28 million shares in hand.
EMPOWERED FUNDS, LLC also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 0.4299 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 22.0 institutions which have possession in CAAS’s shares.
Key Metrics for CAAS
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, China Automotive Systems Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.43.
Technical Analysis of China Automotive Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CAAS) 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 China Automotive Systems Inc (CAAS), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 57,325 shares. Medium term indicators at an average of 50% are spotting the stock at Buy with its 50-day average volume of 56,146 shares. And to end, CAAS’s 100-day average volume is 47,994 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock.
