The Macerich Company (NYSE:MAC) saw a downside of -1.95% to close Tuesday at $11.08 after subtracting -$0.22 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,422,980 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $12.28 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 1,555,250 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,956,722.
MAC’s 1-month performance is -12.69% or -$1.44 on its low of $10.98 reached on 08/22/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $7.38 and high of $14.51, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, MAC has lost -1.60% or -$0.18 and has reached a new high 14 times. However, the current price is down -23.61% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
MAC stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Nov 29.Zecchini Christopher J (Chief Accounting Officer) most recently sold 2,000 shares at $12.65 per share on Nov 29. This transaction cost the insider $25,302. Chief Accounting Officer, Zecchini Christopher J, sold 2,000 shares at a price of $8.74 on Sep 20.
Valuation Metrics
MAC stock has a beta of 2.20. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.73 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.87, with the price to cash flow ratio at 10.76.
As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 1.63, while the total debt to equity was 1.63.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 54.70%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $150.03 million against revenue of $859.16 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -2.81% to -$14.96 million, while revenue of -$58.73 million was -292.58% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected MAC to announce -$0.08 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.07, representing a 12.50% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $116.62 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $215.26 million.
Let’s look briefly at The Macerich Company (MAC) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 22.11% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 23.15%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $11.49, reflecting a -9.77% or -$1.20 change from its current price. MAC is currently trading -11.00% above its 20-day SMA, +11.24% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -1.16% and SMA200 by-2.72%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 9.38% and 8.91% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.40. The RSI (14) points at 31.78%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 4.98% with the period’s ATR at 0.39. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.61 and -0.88 on the 14-day charts.
