When the price per share of your stock goes up, it’s a good sign. It strengthens your portfolio.
For investors, tracking these percentage gains is good practice for each of your stocks. Gains and losses are tracked by percentage increase and decrease. The calculations involve comparing the initial (before) quantity and the after (final) quantity.
These three healthcare stocks are weakening, as assessed by their quantities over a three-month period: BioDelivery Sciences International (NASDAQ: BDSI), CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSEMKT:CVM), Spectranetics Corp (NASDAQ:SPNC).
BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDSI) is currently at lower price in relation to its $18.48 price that was a 12-month high. That high was hit on September 12 of 2014. The low over the last 52 weeks meanwhile was $7.17, which happened on June 30, 2015. At its recent close, the stock was down -21.66%, which it maintained this year at -36.23%.
At last close, the CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSEMKT:CVM) was at $0.696. That is a big discount to its average pricing of $0.84, as measured over the last 200 days. The range of the last 52 weeks for this stock has been $0.54 – $1.30. It is trading lower than its high over the last 52 weeks, with that high being $1.27 (recorded July 16, 2014), and is at a premium to its low over that same period of $0.54 (December 17, 2014). As of recent close, its performance over last quarter of -33.65% is downbeat; it was maintained at +18.95% in 2015.
Spectranetics Corp (NASDAQ: SPNC) is trading higher than its standard daily volume; its trade price is currently 3.25 million. The quarterly downbeat performance is -35.4%, which is kept through -35.66% this year. Shares are down -3.56% to $22.19. The lowest stock price over the past year occurred on July 8, 2014; said price was $21.49. The moving average over the last 12 months for this stock is $25.52.