In the last trading session, 1.56 million ESS Tech Inc (NYSE:GWH) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.20. With the company’s per share price at $2.08 changed hands at $0.52 or 33.33% during last session, the market valuation stood at $27.27M. GWH’s last price was a discount, traded about -498.56% off its 52-week high of $12.45. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.76, which suggests the last value was 63.46% up since then. When we look at ESS Tech Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.52 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 884.86K.
Analysts gave the ESS Tech Inc (GWH) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.00. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended GWH as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
ESS Tech Inc (NYSE:GWH) trade information
Instantly GWH was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 62.50%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -82.77%, with the 5-day performance at 62.50% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, ESS Tech Inc (NYSE:GWH) is 94.39% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 0.96 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 0.45 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 2.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 16.8% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, GWH’s forecast low is 2.5 with 2.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -20.19% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -20.19% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 1.40%. The 2025 estimates are for ESS Tech Inc earnings to increase by 41.19%.
GWH Dividends
ESS Tech Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-15.
ESS Tech Inc (NYSE:GWH)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 33.01% of ESS Tech Inc shares while 17.62% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 26.30%. There are 17.62% institutions holding the ESS Tech Inc stock share, with SOFTBANK GROUP CORP. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 20.4563% of the shares, roughly 35.95 million GWH shares worth $29.41 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 1.6365% or 2.88 million shares worth $2.35 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund . With 153.94 shares estimated at $0.32 million under it, the former controlled 1.19% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund held about 0.49% of the shares, roughly 62.73 shares worth around $0.13 million.
