The key reasons why Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG) is -51.32% away from 52-week high?

Lightwave Logic Inc (NASDAQ: LWLG) open the trading on Wednesday, with a bit cautious approach as it glided -6.10% to $2.77, before settling in for the price of $2.95 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, LWLG posted a 52-week range of $2.43-$5.69.

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The Basic Materials Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 0.00%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -19.24%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $122.37 million, simultaneously with a float of $121.53 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $338.97 million. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $3.10, while the 200-day Moving Average is $3.49.

Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Specialty Chemicals industry. Lightwave Logic Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.69%, in contrast to 27.83% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Dec 13 ’23, this organization’s Director sold 75,000 shares at the rate of 4.67, making the entire transaction reach 350,528 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 179,128. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 06 ’23, Company’s Director sold 27,000 for 4.75, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 128,343. This particular insider is now the holder of 81,749 in total.

Lightwave Logic Inc (NASDAQ: LWLG) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 24.48. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.28. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3081.57.

In the same vein, LWLG’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -0.18.

Technical Analysis of Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)

[Lightwave Logic Inc, LWLG] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 10.90% While, its Average True Range was 0.29.

Raw Stochastic average of Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 15.61%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 9.24% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 113.29% that was higher than 87.66% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.