MP Materials Corp. (NYSE:MP) saw a downside of -0.97% to close Tuesday at $20.37 after subtracting -$0.2 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,637,940 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $21.98 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 2,668,400 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 3,026,854.
MP’s 1-month performance is -14.48% or -$3.34 on its low of $20.16 reached on 08/21/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $20.16 and high of $38.34, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 03/01/23. YTD, MP has lost -16.10% or -$3.91 and has reached a new high 19 times. However, the current price is down -46.87% from the 52-week high price.
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Insider Transactions
MP stock investors last saw insider trading activity on May 31.Litinsky James H. (Chairman and CEO) most recently sold 647,832 shares at $21.70 per share on May 26. This transaction cost the insider $14,055,088. 10% Owner, JHL Capital Group LLC, sold 647,832 shares at a price of $21.70 on May 26. Then, on Dec 14, Director Gold Daniel Allen sold 53,702 shares at a price of $31.62 per share. This transaction amounted to $1,698,057.
Valuation Metrics
MP stock has a beta of 2.65. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 9.93 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 2.64.
MP Materials Corp.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 15.30, with the current ratio over the same period at 16.20. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.50, while the total debt to equity was 0.50.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 75.10%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $435.29 million against revenue of $527.51 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 -890.14% to $7.4 million, while revenue of $37.45 million was -406.08% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected MP to announce $0.06 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.09, representing a 50.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $12.69 million. MP stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 924.51 million, with total debt at $693.94 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $177.65 million.
Let’s look briefly at MP Materials Corp. (MP) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 21.58% to suggest the stock is trending oversold, with historical volatility in this time period at 25.93%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $20.85, reflecting a -6.60% or -$1.44 change from its current price. MP is currently trading -14.23% above its 20-day SMA, -26.83% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -6.82% and SMA200 by-29.71%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 7.22% and 6.43% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.82. The RSI (14) points at 29.31%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 4.91% with the period’s ATR at 0.85. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.16 and -1.56 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for MP Materials Corp. (NYSE: MP), Northland Capital downgraded it to a Market perform rating. They previously had an Outperform rating on the stock.
