With 0.61 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.33 million shares. The 52-week range on USAC shows that it touched its highest point at $30.10 and its lowest point at $21.06 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $26.67. With its current market cap of 2.77 billion, USAC has annualized dividend of $2.10 while the current yield stands at 8.92%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.39.
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 USAC was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -3.56%, but this was up by 6.46% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -17.02% while six-month performance rose 8.68%. The stock lost -2.69% in the past year, while it has lost -0.04% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for USAC yields 0.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.18. For the next quarter, that number is 0.24. This implies an EPS growth rate of 32.46% for this year and 23.37% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 117.54 million USAC shares are outstanding with a float of 65.69 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for USAC since 1 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 0 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.86542 being high and $0.783 being low. For USAC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.82421.
