Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) Short Interest Update

Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) saw a significant decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totalling 44,300 shares, a decrease of 6.7% from the March 15th total of 47,500 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 54,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.8 days. Currently, 0.3% of the shares of the company are sold short.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of AWRE. HRT Financial LP bought a new position in Aware in the fourth quarter worth $36,000. Morgan Stanley lifted its position in Aware by 47.8% in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 49,451 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $85,000 after purchasing an additional 15,999 shares during the period. CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC lifted its position in Aware by 16.7% in the fourth quarter. CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC now owns 70,000 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $116,000 after purchasing an additional 10,000 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in Aware by 60.2% in the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 79,072 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $125,000 after purchasing an additional 29,705 shares during the period. Finally, Thompson Davis & CO. Inc. bought a new position in Aware in the fourth quarter worth $156,000. 24.39% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Aware Trading Up 5.5 %

AWRE opened at $1.72 on Wednesday. Aware has a 1-year low of $1.05 and a 1-year high of $2.10. The stock has a market capitalization of $36.26 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.91 and a beta of 0.78. The business has a 50 day moving average of $1.82 and a 200-day moving average of $1.64.

Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, March 12th. The software maker reported ($0.07) EPS for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $4.37 million during the quarter. Aware had a negative return on equity of 14.28% and a negative net margin of 40.09%.

About Aware

Aware, Inc, a authentication company, provides biometrics software products and solutions for government agencies and commercial entities in the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company offers biometric software solution, which includes Knomi, a mobile biometric framework which provides multiple biometric modality options; AwareABIS, an automated biometric identification system used for large-scale biometric identification and deduplication; AFIX suite used for small-scale law enforcement focused biometric identification; and AFIX Tracker for fingerprint, palmprint, and latent print identification.