In the last trading session, 19.16 million Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.63. With the company’s per share price at $1.15 changed hands at $0.08 or 7.48% during last session, the market valuation stood at $168.05M. OPTT’s last price was a discount, traded about -52.17% off its 52-week high of $1.75. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.12, which suggests the last value was 89.57% up since then. When we look at Ocean Power Technologies’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 89.74 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 37.02 million.

Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) trade information

Instantly OPTT was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 13.86%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 12.75%, with the 5-day performance at 13.86% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT) is 259.38% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 10.56 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 0.38 days.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 45.31%.

OPTT Dividends

Ocean Power Technologies is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February.

Ocean Power Technologies (AMEX:OPTT)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 2.92% of Ocean Power Technologies shares while 3.41% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 3.52%. There are 3.41% institutions holding the Ocean Power Technologies stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 2.9894% of the shares, roughly 1.76 million OPTT shares worth $0.34 million.

BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.9809% or 0.58 million shares worth $0.11 million as of 2024-06-30.