Why POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: POET) Is Worth A Spot On Your Watchlist

POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET)’s traded shares stood at 1.09 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.42. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $4.96, to imply a decrease of -1.39% or -$0.07 in intraday trading. The POET share’s 52-week high remains $7.79, putting it -57.06% down since that peak but still an impressive 81.45% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $0.92. The company has a valuation of $350.72M, with an average of 2.66 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.32 million shares over the past 3 months.

POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET) trade information

After registering a -1.39% downside in the last session, POET Technologies Inc (POET) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -9.90%, and 16.71% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -16.64%. Short interest in POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET) saw shorts transact 2.11 million shares and set a 1.53 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $3.5 and $3.5 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, POET has been trading 29.44% off suggested target high and 29.44% from its likely low.

POET Technologies Inc (POET) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing POET Technologies Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. POET Technologies Inc (POET) shares are 38.55% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 11.76% against -4.30%. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -90.53% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 3 analysts is 46.67k. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 2 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 560.5k.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 145.53k and 11.85k respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -67.93% before jumping 4,629.96% in the following quarter.

POET Dividends

POET Technologies Inc has its next earnings report out in February. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

POET Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:POET)’s Major holders

POET Technologies Inc insiders hold 0.81% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 8.80% of the shares at 8.88% float percentage. In total, 8.80% institutions holds shares in the company, led by MMCAP INTERNATIONAL INC. SPC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 2.86 million shares (or 6.1527% of shares), all amounting to roughly $5.93 million.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP with 0.13 million shares, or about 0.2692% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $0.26 million.

Going by data provided on Nov 30, 2024 , Fidelity NASDAQ Composite Index Fund holds roughly 26.14 shares. This is just over 0.03% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $0.13 million