Overall market sentiment has been down on Mercer International Inc. (MERC) stock lately. MERC receives a Bearish rating from InvestorsObserver's Stock Sentiment Indicator.
What is Stock Sentiment?
Sentiment uses short term technical analysis to gauge whether a stock is desired by investors. As a technical indicator, it focuses on recent trends as opposed to the long term health of the underlying company. Updates for the company such as a earnings release can move the stock away from current trends.
Sentiment is how investors, or the market, feels about a stock. There are lots of ways to measure sentiment. At the core, sentiment is pretty easy to understand. If a stock is going up, investors must be bullish, while if it is going down, sentiment is bearish.
InvestorsObserver’s Sentiment Indicator looks at price trends over the past week and also considers changes in volume. Increasing volume can mean a trend is getting stronger, while decreasing volume can mean a trend is nearing a conclusion.
For stocks that have options, our system also considers the balance between calls, which are often bets that the price will go up, and puts, which are frequently bets that the price will fall.
What's Happening With MERC Stock Today?
Mercer International Inc. (MERC) stock is higher by 1.01% while the S&P 500 has fallen -0.52% as of 1:13 PM on Friday, Jan 15. MERC is higher by $0.11 from the previous closing price of $11.35 on volume of 131,036 shares. Over the past year the S&P 500 has risen 14.79% while MERC has fallen -5.91%. MERC lost -$1.19 per share in the over the last 12 months.
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More About Mercer International Inc.
Mercer International Inc operates in the pulp business and its operations are in Germany and Western Canada. The company is a producer of market northern bleached softwood kraft, or NBSK, pulp in the world. It is managed based on the primary products it manufactures: Pulp and Wood products. Mercer derives most of its revenue from the Pulp products.
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