Basic Materials Afterhours Leader: Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)

Technical Stock Analysis

Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA), a Basic Materials sector firm, traded 2.96 Million shares in last trading session and stock went up 0.40% with closing price of $22.60 per share. Company gross margins represents its total sales revenue minus its cost of goods sold (COGS), divided by the total sales revenue earned by the company, expressed as a percentage. And its good to know that the higher that percentage, the more the company retains on each dollar of sales, to service its other costs and the debt obligations, and Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)’s gross margin stands at 24.20%.

Investment Worthy Stock or not?

For personal guess ROI is usually expressed as a percentage and is typically used for taking any financial decisions, for the purpose of comparing a Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)’s profitability or to compare the efficiency of different investments, hence, AA return on investment (ROI) is 14.20%.

52-Week Range

52-Week Range are valuable stats for watching Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)’s past year fluctuation as that gives investors an idea of how much the security has moved in the last year and whether it is trading near the top, middle or bottom of the range. Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)’s stock value has moved between $20.73 – 49.13 in last one year.

Analyst’s Views

Analysts mean target price for Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA) is $35.58 while analysts mean recommendation is 2.10.

Stock Performance

Its weekly performance is 4.00% while year to date (YTD) performance is -14.97%.

EPS Growth

Earnings per share growth is defined as the percentage change in normalised earnings per share over the previous 12 month period to the latest year end. It gives a good picture of the rate at which a company has grown its profitability. Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)’s EPS growth this year is -6.00%. For best decision making investors should look at Alcoa Corporation (NYSE:AA)’s EPS growth for next year stands at 185.95%.