Applied UV Inc. (NASDAQ:AUVI) saw a downside of -7.22% to close Tuesday at $0.69 after subtracting -$0.05 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 570,640 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $0.7700 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 758,885 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 918,684.
AUVI’s 1-month performance is -21.15% or -$0.2203 on its low of $0.6500 reached on 08/09/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $0.65 and high of $9.80, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 01/27/23. YTD, AUVI has lost -84.84% or -$3.8385 and has reached a new high 6 times. However, the current price is down -93.00% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
AUVI stock has a beta of -1.27. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 0.23 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 0.15.
Applied UV Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended March 30 was 0.30, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.60. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending March 30 was 0.27, while the total debt to equity was 0.52.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 17.50%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is -39.12%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $4.04 million against revenue of $20.14 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending March 30 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 12.2% to -$0.41 million, while revenue of -$0.36 million was 12.2% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected AUVI to announce -$1.35 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$1.4, representing a -3.70% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than -$1.88 million. AUVI stock balance sheet for the quarter ending March 30 shows that total liabilities totaled 48.0 million, with total debt at $14.4 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $8.91 million.
Let’s look briefly at Applied UV Inc. (AUVI) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 38.76% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 138.08%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $0.7246, reflecting a -8.61% or -$0.0646 change from its current price. AUVI is currently trading -18.43% above its 20-day SMA, -83.25% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -61.24% and SMA200 by-87.18%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 20.54% and 24.00% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.0766. The RSI (14) points at 37.92%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 11.35% with the period’s ATR at 0.0864. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.0331 and -0.0162 on the 14-day charts.
