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How to buy Fuel Tech stock | 0.96
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Fuel Tech, Inc is a pollution & treatment controls business based in the US. Fuel Tech shares (FTEK) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Fuel Tech employs 82 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$19.5 million.
How to buy shares in Fuel Tech
- Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Fuel Tech. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: FTEK. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Fuel Tech reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$0.96, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Fuel Tech, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Fuel Tech. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
How has coronavirus impacted Fuel Tech's share price?
Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Fuel Tech's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was USD$0.96, which is 9.68% up on its pre-crash value of USD$0.8671 and 220.00% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$0.3.
If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Fuel Tech shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$545.72 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,156.48.
Fuel Tech share price
Use our graph to track the performance of FTEK stocks over time.Fuel Tech shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-10-20.
| Latest market close | USD$0.96 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | USD$0.3502 - USD$1.49 |
| 50-day moving average | USD$0.7656 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$0.7788 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$1.75 |
| PE ratio | N/A |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$-0.012 |
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Is it a good time to buy Fuel Tech stock?
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Fuel Tech price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $0.96 from 2020-11-16
| 1 week (2020-11-23) | -65.96% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-10-30) | 35.21% |
| 3 months (2020-08-28) | 17.07% |
| 6 months (2020-05-29) | 29.73% |
| 1 year (2019-11-29) | -2.53% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2018-11-30) | -20.66% |
| 3 years (2017-11-30) | 1.04% |
| 5 years (2015-11-30) | -56.36% |
Is Fuel Tech under- or over-valued?
Valuing Fuel Tech stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Fuel Tech's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Fuel Tech's EBITDA
Fuel Tech's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$1.4 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Fuel Tech's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Fuel Tech financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$19.5 million |
|---|---|
| Gross profit TTM | USD$10.8 million |
| Return on assets TTM | -19.17% |
| Return on equity TTM | -40.37% |
| Profit margin | -54.9% |
| Book value | $0.855 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$20 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Fuel Tech shares
There are currently 142,339 Fuel Tech shares held short by investors – that's known as Fuel Tech's "short interest". This figure is 74.5% up from 81,566 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Fuel Tech shares can be evaluated.
Fuel Tech's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Fuel Tech's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Fuel Tech shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Fuel Tech shares traded daily (recently around 124858.77192982). Fuel Tech's SIR currently stands at 1.14. In other words for every 100,000 Fuel Tech shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1140 shares are currently held short.
However Fuel Tech's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Fuel Tech shares, or, against the total number of tradable Fuel Tech shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Fuel Tech's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Fuel Tech shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0076% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Fuel Tech shares, roughly 8 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Fuel Tech.
Find out more about how you can short Fuel Tech stock.
Fuel Tech share dividends
We're not expecting Fuel Tech to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Fuel Tech share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Fuel Tech's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.3502 up to $1.49. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Fuel Tech's is 1.8224. This would suggest that Fuel Tech's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Fuel Tech overview
Fuel Tech, Inc. provides boiler optimization, efficiency improvement, and air pollution reduction and control solutions to utility and industrial customers worldwide. It operates through Air Pollution Control Technology and FUEL CHEM Technology segments. The Air Pollution Control Technology segment offers technologies to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources, which includes low and ultra-low NOx burners; over-fire air systems; NOxOUT and HERT selective non-catalytic reduction systems; advanced selective catalytic reduction systems comprising ULNB, OFA, and SNCR components, as well as downsized SCR catalyst, Ammonia Injection Grid, and Graduated Straightening Grid systems; NOxOUT CASCADE and NOxOUT-SCR processes; ULTRA technology; and flue gas conditioning systems. The FUEL CHEM Technology segment provides programs to improve the efficiency, reliability, fuel flexibility, boiler heat rate, and environmental status of combustion units by controlling slagging, fouling, corrosion, opacity, and acid plume, as well as the formation of sulfur trioxide, ammonium bisulfate, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide through the addition of chemicals into the furnace using TIFI targeted in-furnace injection technology. This segment offers its FUEL CHEM program for plants operating in the electric utility, industrial, pulp and paper, waste-to-energy, university, and district heating markets, as well as to the owners of boilers, furnaces, and other combustion units. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois.
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