Stocks of Ring Energy Inc (REI) are poised to climb above their peers

With 1.64 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.88 million shares. The 52-week range on REI shows that it touched its highest point at $2.43 and its lowest point at $1.25 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $3.25. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.73.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of REI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 6.52%, but this was up by 5.76% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -11.45% while six-month performance fell -21.39%. The stock lost -30.99% in the past year, while it has gained 0.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for REI yields 0.36 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.48. For the next quarter, that number is 0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of -47.47% for this year and 2.14% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 37.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 100.74%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 175.53 million REI shares are outstanding with a float of 124.20 million shares on hand for trading. On Feb 15, 2024, short shares totaled 13.95 million, which was 7.13% higher than short shares on Jan 12, 2024. In addition to Mr. Paul D. McKinney as the firm’s CEO & Chairman of the Board, Mr. Travis T. Thomas serves as its Executive VP, CFO, Corporate Secretary & Treasurer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 48.23% of REI’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for REI since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.

Summary of Insider Activity:

Insiders traded REI stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has increased to 5 while that of sell transactions has risen to 18 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 225,000 while 40,670,325 shares were sold.