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How to buy Pingtan Marine Enterprise stock

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Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd is a farm products business based in the US. Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares (PME) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Pingtan Marine Enterprise employs 2,060 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

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  1. PME shares summary
  2. Compare share dealing platforms
  3. Is PME stock a buy or sell?
  4. Stock performance over time
  5. Can I short PME shares?
  6. Are PME shares over-valued?
  7. Pingtan Marine Enterprise's financials
  8. How volatile are PME shares?
  9. Does Pingtan Marine Enterprise pay a dividend?
  10. Other common questions

Pingtan Marine Enterprise share price

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Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares at a glance

Information last updated 2021-03-10.
52-week range$0.57 - $2.50
50-day moving average $1.57
200-day moving average $1.76
Wall St. target price$15.00
PE ratio 14.7945
Dividend yield $0 (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM) $0.07

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Is Pingtan Marine Enterprise under- or over-valued?

Valuing Pingtan Marine Enterprise stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Pingtan Marine Enterprise's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise's P/E ratio

Pingtan Marine Enterprise's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 15x. In other words, Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares trade at around 15x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise's EBITDA

Pingtan Marine Enterprise's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $21 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Pingtan Marine Enterprise's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise financials

Revenue TTM $90.8 million
Operating margin TTM 7.41%
Gross profit TTM $25.2 million
Return on assets TTM 0.92%
Return on equity TTM 4.01%
Profit margin 6.32%
Book value $1.85
Market capitalisation $86.9 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares

There are currently 49,477 Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares held short by investors – that's known as Pingtan Marine Enterprise's "short interest". This figure is 2192.7% up from 2,158 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares can be evaluated.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Pingtan Marine Enterprise's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares traded daily (recently around 260405.26315789). Pingtan Marine Enterprise's SIR currently stands at 0.19. In other words for every 100,000 Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares traded daily on the market, roughly 190 shares are currently held short.

However Pingtan Marine Enterprise's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares, or, against the total number of tradable Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Pingtan Marine Enterprise's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0015% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Pingtan Marine Enterprise shares, roughly 2 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 Pingtan Marine Enterprise.

Find out more about how you can short Pingtan Marine Enterprise stock.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise share dividends

We're not expecting Pingtan Marine Enterprise to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Pingtan Marine Enterprise's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.5701 up to $2.5. 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 Pingtan Marine Enterprise's is -0.4848. This would suggest that Pingtan Marine Enterprise's shares have been inversely-correlated to the average (for this exchange) – so when the broader market trended up or down, Pingtan Marine Enterprise has bucked the trend.

Pingtan Marine Enterprise overview

Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd. , through its subsidiary, Fujian Provincial Pingtan County Ocean Fishing Group Co. , Ltd. , engages in the ocean fishing business. The company catches a range of fish species, such as squid, ribbon fish, croaker fish, and cuttlefish. As of December 31, 2019, it owned 41 squid jigging vessels, 26 trawlers, 25 seine vessels, 13 drifters, 4 longline fishing vessels, and 2 transport vessels, as well as had operating license rights to 20 drifters. The company serves various customers, including distributors, restaurant owners, and exporters in the People's Republic of China.

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