What does a latest Palatin volatility slide mean for institutional investors?

It seems Palatin may not have a good chance to recover from the latest slide as its shares fell again. Palatin's current daily volatility is 2.88 percent, with a beta of 0.07 and an alpha of -0.48 over DOW. As many millenniums are trying to avoid the latest volatility, we are going to outline Palatin a little further to understand its historical price patterns. We will evaluate if Palatin shares are reasonably priced going into December.
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The company runs under Healthcare sector within Biotechnology industry. We provide trade recommendations to complement the recent expert consensus on Palatin. Our dynamic recommendation engine exercises a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the firm's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available at the time.
Investing in Palatin Technologies, just like investing in any other equity instrument, is characterized by a strong risk-return correlation. High risks mean high returns and low risk means lower expected returns. Risk management is the act of identifying and assessing the potential risk and developing strategies to minimize these risks and earn maximum possible profits while holding Palatin Technologies along with other instruments in the same portfolio. Using conventional technical analysis and fundamental analysis to select individual securities into a portfolio complements risk management and adds value to overall investors' investing strategies.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Palatin Technologies' price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as Palatin Technologies. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against Palatin Technologies' peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, Palatin Technologies' competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in Palatin Technologies.

How important is Palatin Technologies's Liquidity

Palatin Technologies financial leverage refers to using borrowed capital as a funding source to finance Palatin Technologies ongoing operations. It is usually used to expand the firm's asset base and generate returns on borrowed capital. Palatin Technologies financial leverage is typically calculated by taking the company's all interest-bearing debt and dividing it by total capital. So the higher the debt-to-capital ratio (i.e., financial leverage), the riskier the company. Financial leverage can amplify the potential profits to Palatin Technologies' owners, but it also increases the potential losses and risk of financial distress, including bankruptcy, if the firm cannot cover its debt costs. The degree of Palatin Technologies' financial leverage can be measured in several ways, including by ratios such as the debt-to-equity ratio (total debt / total equity), equity multiplier (total assets / total equity), or the debt ratio (total debt / total assets). Please check the breakdown between Palatin Technologies's total debt and its cash.

Palatin Technologies Gross Profit

Palatin Technologies Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Palatin Technologies previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Palatin Technologies Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Palatin Technologies' gross profit and other fundamental indicators for more details.

Palatin Technologies Correlation with Peers

Investors in Palatin can reduce exposure to individual asset risk by holding a diversified portfolio of assets in addition to a long position in Palatin Technologies. Diversification will allow for the same portfolio return with reduced risk. The correlation table of Palatin Technologies and its peers is a two-dimensional matrix that shows the correlation coefficient between pairs of securities Palatin is related in some way. The cells in the table are color-coded to highlight significantly positive and negative relationships. Each cell shows the correlation between one pair of equities and can be used to run pair trading strategies or create efficient portfolios with your current brokerage. Please check volatility of Palatin for more details

Detailed Perspective On Palatin Technologies

Palatin maintains Sharpe Ratio (i.e. Efficiency) of -0.2, which implies the firm had -0.2% of return per unit of risk over the last month. Macroaxis standpoint towards forecasting the risk of any stock is to look at both systematic and unsystematic factors of the business, including all available market data and technical indicators. Palatin exposes twenty-one different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility that cannot be diversified away. Please be advised to check Palatin risk adjusted performance of (0.19), and Coefficient Of Variation of (623.60) to confirm the risk estimate we provide.
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Another setback for Palatin institutional investors

Latest total risk alpha is at -0.73. Palatin exhibits very low volatility with skewness of 0.49 and kurtosis of 0.92. However, we advise investors to further study Palatin technical indicators to make sure all market info is available and is reliable. Palatin is a potential penny stock. Although Palatin may be in fact a good instrument to invest, many penny stocks are speculative in nature and are subject to artificial price hype. Please make sure you totally understand the upside potential and downside risk of investing in Palatin. We encourage investors to look for the signals such us email spams, message board hypes, claims of breakthroughs, volume upswings, sudden news releases, promotions that are not reported, or demotions released before SEC filings. Please also check biographies and work history of current and past company officers before investing in high volatility instruments, penny stocks, or equities with microcap classification. You can indeed make money on this equity instrument if you perfectly time your entry and exit. However, remember that penny stocks that have been the subject of an artificial hype usually unable to maintain its increased share price for more than just a few days. The price of a promoted high volatility instrument will almost always revert back. The only way to increase shareholder value is through legitimate performance backed up by solid fundamentals.

Our Bottom Line On Palatin

Whereas some other firms in the biotechnology industry are either recovering or due for a correction, Palatin may not be as strong as the others in terms of longer-term growth potentials. To sum up, as of the 17th of November 2020, we believe that at this point, Palatin is undervalued with significantly high chance of bankruptcy within the next 2 years. However, our concluding buy-hold-sell recommendation on the company is Strong Sell.

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