Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE:DOC) saw a downside of -2.17% to $14.64 after subtracting -$0.32 on Tuesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,099,113 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $14.97 in the past week and touched a new high 4 times within the past 5 days. An average of 1,376,723 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,654,913.
DOC’s 1-month performance is 3.94% or $0.78 on its low of $13.78 reached on 07/10/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $13.27 and high of $18.16, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, DOC has achieved 1.14% or $0.19 and has reached a new high 16 times. However, the current price is down -19.43% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
DOC stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Feb 28.Thomas John T (President and CEO) most recently sold 10,000 shares at $17.81 per share on Aug 19. This transaction cost the insider $178,100. President and CEO, Thomas John T, sold 10,000 shares at a price of $18.08 on Aug 18. Then, on Aug 17, President and CEO Thomas John T sold 10,000 shares at a price of $17.95 per share. This transaction amounted to $179,500.
Valuation Metrics
DOC stock has a beta of 0.79. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 6.53 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.20.
As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.61, while the total debt to equity was 0.61. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 66.80%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $125.69 million against revenue of $526.63 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -34.69% to $12.54 million, while revenue of $10.2 million was 18.66% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected DOC to announce $0.05 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.05, representing a 0.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $82.19 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $238.45 million.
Let’s look briefly at Physicians Realty Trust (DOC) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 07 August was 51.00% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 23.64%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $14.62, reflecting a +0.76% or $0.11 change from its current price. DOC is currently trading +2.37% above its 20-day SMA, -1.87% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +8.59% and SMA200 by+2.09%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 53.24% and 44.59% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.32. The RSI (14) points at 52.62%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 47.87% with the period’s ATR at 0.31. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.08 and -0.07 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC), JMP Securities launched coverage with a Mkt outperform rating. Analysts offering their rating for DOC stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate DOC as a “sell,”, while 10 advise that investors “Hold.” 1 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 1 rates the stock as overweight while 5 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is DOC’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $14.50 and a high of $19.00, with their median price target at $15.25. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Physicians Realty Trust (DOC) stock is $15.84.
