Orion S.A (NYSE: OEC) kicked off on Friday, up 3.37% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $17.51. Over the past 52 weeks, OEC has traded in a range of $15.54-$28.48.
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Basic Materials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 6.24% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -3.21%. With a float of $56.19 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $57.90 million.
The firm has a total of 1650 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 22.44%, operating margin of 8.9%, and the pretax margin is 6.51%.
Orion S.A (OEC) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Specialty Chemicals Industry. The insider ownership of Orion S.A is 3.72%, while institutional ownership is 95.37%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 22 ’24, was worth 176,900. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer of this company bought 10,000 shares at a rate of $17.69, taking the stock ownership to the 958,776 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 09 ’24, when Company’s Director bought 2,500 for $18.53, making the entire transaction worth $46,325. This insider now owns 78,772 shares in total.
Orion S.A (OEC) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 6/30/2024, the organization reported 0.49 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.46) by 0.03. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.44 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -3.21% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 18.02% during the next five years compared to -3.26% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Orion S.A (NYSE: OEC) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Orion S.A’s (OEC) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.80. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.55. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 133.54.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.32, a number that is poised to hit 0.49 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.27 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Orion S.A (OEC)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Orion S.A, OEC], we can find that recorded value of 0.54 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.42 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 67.90%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.92.
During the past 100 days, Orion S.A’s (OEC) raw stochastic average was set at 24.37%, which indicates a significant decrease from 78.92% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 61.13% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 53.63% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $21.04, while its 200-day Moving Average is $23.22. Now, the first resistance to watch is $18.47. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $18.84. The third major resistance level sits at $19.27. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $17.66, it is likely to go to the next support level at $17.23. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $16.86.
Orion S.A (NYSE: OEC) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 1.06 billion has total of 58,308K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 1,894 M in contrast with the sum of 103,500 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 477,000 K and last quarter income was 20,500 K.
