A Bullish 2023 Outlook For BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB) Shares

BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 16, with the stock price up by 0.29% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $5.18.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $5.16, falling within a range of $5.08 and $5.18. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $7.20, and the low was $3.17. On the whole, BB has fluctuated by -3.81% over the past month.

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Revisions could be a useful indicator to get insight on short-term price movement; so for the company, there were no upward and no downward review(s) in last seven days. We see that BB’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.

11 analyst(s) have assigned their ratings of the stock’s forecast evaluation on a scale of 1.00-5.00 to indicate a strong buy to a strong sell recommendation. The stock is rated as a Hold by 9 analyst(s), 1 recommend it as a Buy and 1 called the BB stock Overweight. In the meantime, 0 analyst(s) believe the stock as Underweight and 0 think it is a Sell. Thus, investors eager to increase their holdings of the company’s stock will have an opportunity to do so as the average rating for the stock is Hold.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0, with the price of BB currently trading nearly -1.58% and 7.48% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 54.10, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.15% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.04%. Furthermore, BlackBerry Limited (BB)’s beta value is 1.56, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.16. The company’s stock has been forecasted to trade at an average price of $6.06 over the course of the next 52 weeks, with a low of $4.00 and a high of $11.00. Based on these price targets, the low is 22.78% off current price, whereas the price has to move -112.36% to reach the yearly target high. Additionally, analysts’ median price of $5.50 is likely to be welcomed by investors because it represents a decrease of -6.18% from the current levels.

A comparison of BlackBerry Limited (BB) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. BB showed an intraday change of 0.29% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -4.70%%. In comparison, Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) has moved lower at -0.37% today and is up 13.54% over the past 12 months. On the other hand, the price of Apple Inc. (AAPL) has fallen -0.06% today. The stock, however, is off 37.26% from where it was a year ago. Additionally, there is a gain of 0.26% for Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) in recent trading while the stock has seen an overall depriciation of 39.34%% over the past year. Other than that, the overall performance of the S&P 500 during the today’s session so far shows that it lost -0.02%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Slipped by -0.04%.

Data on historical trading for BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 3.77 million and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.64 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 581.46 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 11.20% of BlackBerry Limited’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 56.60% of the company’s shares. The stock has risen by 58.74% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the BB stock heading into the next quarter.