In the last trading session, 1.01 million U.S. Energy Corp (NASDAQ:USEG) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.73. With the company’s per share price at $2.24 changed hands at $0.05 or 2.28% during last session, the market valuation stood at $78.77M. USEG’s last price was a discount, traded about -185.71% off its 52-week high of $6.40. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.81, which suggests the last value was 63.84% up since then. When we look at U.S. Energy Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 16.42 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.77 million.
Analysts gave the U.S. Energy Corp (USEG) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.50. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended USEG as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. U.S. Energy Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.08.
U.S. Energy Corp (NASDAQ:USEG) trade information
Instantly USEG was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -17.95%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 37.42%, with the 5-day performance at -17.95% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, U.S. Energy Corp (NASDAQ:USEG) is 39.13% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 84874.0 shares sold at short interest cover period of 0.57 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 7, meaning bulls need an upside of 68.0% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, USEG’s forecast low is 7 with 7 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -212.5% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -212.5% for it to hit the projected low.
U.S. Energy Corp (USEG) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the U.S. Energy Corp share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 107.41% over the past 6 months, a 71.88% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of -6.50%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -35.22% down from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 2 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 4.54M. 1 analysts are of the opinion that U.S. Energy Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 3.96M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 7.32M. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -38.02%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -3.77%. The 2025 estimates are for U.S. Energy Corp earnings to increase by 59.11%.
USEG Dividends
U.S. Energy Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in March.
U.S. Energy Corp (NASDAQ:USEG)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 50.47% of U.S. Energy Corp shares while 19.04% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 38.43%. There are 19.04% institutions holding the U.S. Energy Corp stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 0.9445% of the shares, roughly 0.24 million USEG shares worth $0.24 million.
VERITY ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.4573% or 0.12 million shares worth $0.12 million as of 2024-06-30.
