Equus Total Return (NYSE:EQS) Shares Pass Below 200 Day Moving Average – Should You Sell?

Equus Total Return, Inc. (NYSE:EQS)’s share price passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of $1.80 and traded as low as $1.74. Equus Total Return shares last traded at $1.72, with a volume of 1,400 shares changing hands.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d-)” rating on shares of Equus Total Return in a report on Monday, December 8th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Sell rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, Equus Total Return currently has a consensus rating of “Sell”.

Equus Total Return Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a quick ratio of 2.67 and a current ratio of 2.67. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $1.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $1.80. The stock has a market cap of $24.03 million, a PE ratio of -1.51 and a beta of 0.79.

Equus Total Return (NYSE:EQS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 20th. The investment management company reported ($0.10) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Equus Total Return had a negative return on equity of 12.03% and a negative net margin of 1,081.99%.The company had revenue of $0.36 million during the quarter.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Equus Total Return

An institutional investor recently bought a new position in Equus Total Return stock. MSH Capital Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Equus Total Return, Inc. (NYSE:EQS) in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor acquired 16,666 shares of the investment management company’s stock, valued at approximately $37,000. MSH Capital Advisors LLC owned approximately 0.12% of Equus Total Return at the end of the most recent quarter.

About Equus Total Return

Equus Total Return, Inc is a business development company (BDC) specializing in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate partnerships/joint ventures, growth and expansion capital, acquisition financing, roll-up acquisition strategies, operational turnarounds, recapitalizations of existing businesses, special situations, equity and equity-oriented securities issued by privately owned companies, debt securities including subordinate debt, debt convertible into common or preferred stock, or debt combined with warrants and common and preferred stock, and preferred equity financing.