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Houston American Energy Corp (AMEX: HUSA) closed the day trading at $1.49 down -9.70% from the previous closing price of $1.65. In other words, the price has decreased by -$9.70 from its previous closing price. On the day, 0.92 million shares were traded. HUSA stock price reached its highest trading level at $1.61 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $1.46.
Ratios:
For a better understanding of HUSA, let’s look at its different ratios. For the most recent quarter (mrq), Quick Ratio is recorded 10.47 and its Current Ratio is at 10.47. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 0.01 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 0.00.
On May 04, 2012, C.K. Cooper Upgraded its rating to Buy which previously was Hold but kept the price unchanged to $4.
Valuation Measures:
Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, HUSA now has a Market Capitalization of 19498886 and an Enterprise Value of 12325285. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 30.46 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 1.65. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 19.78 whereas that against EBITDA is -8.447.
Stock Price History:
The Beta on a monthly basis for HUSA is 0.53, which has changed by 0.050955415 over the last 52 weeks, in comparison to a change of 0.23883796 over the same period for the S&P500. Over the past 52 weeks, HUSA has reached a high of $3.20, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $0.96. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is 2.77%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be 10.01%.
Shares Statistics:
Over the past 3-months, HUSA traded about 1.14M shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, HUSA traded about 4952960 shares per day. A total of 10.91M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 10.05M. Insiders hold about 23.17% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 9.55% stake in the company. Shares short for HUSA as of 1730332800 were 884129 with a Short Ratio of 0.63, compared to 1727654400 on 744897. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 884129 and a Short% of Float of 8.790000000000001.
