PennantPark Floating Stock Forecast - Naive Prediction

PFLT Stock  USD 9.40  0.13  1.40%   
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of PennantPark Floating Rate on the next trading day is expected to be 9.30 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.12 and the sum of the absolute errors of 7.58. PennantPark Stock Forecast is based on your current time horizon.
At this time the relative strength index (rsi) of PennantPark Floating's share price is below 20 indicating that the stock is significantly oversold. The fundamental principle of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to quantify the velocity at which market participants are driving the price of a financial instrument upwards or downwards.

Momentum 0

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Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of PennantPark Floating's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with PennantPark Floating Rate, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting PennantPark Floating's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.38)
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
0.2905
EPS Estimate Current Year
1.1886
EPS Estimate Next Year
1.1766
Wall Street Target Price
10.7857
Using PennantPark Floating hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of PennantPark Floating Rate from the perspective of PennantPark Floating response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards PennantPark Floating using PennantPark Floating's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards PennantPark using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of PennantPark Floating's stock price.

PennantPark Floating Short Interest

An investor who is long PennantPark Floating may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about PennantPark Floating and may potentially protect profits, hedge PennantPark Floating with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
9.8916
Short Percent
0.018
Short Ratio
1.88
Shares Short Prior Month
1.1 M
50 Day MA
9.17

PennantPark Floating Rate Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to PennantPark Floating's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in PennantPark. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding PennantPark can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around PennantPark Floating Rate. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of PennantPark Floating's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about PennantPark Floating.

PennantPark Floating Implied Volatility

    
  1.08  
PennantPark Floating's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of PennantPark Floating Rate stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if PennantPark Floating's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that PennantPark Floating stock will not fluctuate a lot when PennantPark Floating's options are near their expiration.
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of PennantPark Floating Rate on the next trading day is expected to be 9.30 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.12 and the sum of the absolute errors of 7.58.

PennantPark Floating after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 9.27  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of PennantPark Floating to cross-verify your projections.
Receivables Turnover is likely to gain to 15.55 in 2026, whereas Payables Turnover is likely to drop 0.77 in 2026. . Common Stock Shares Outstanding is likely to gain to about 111.7 M in 2026, whereas Net Income Applicable To Common Shares is likely to drop slightly above 26.5 M in 2026.

Open Interest Against 2026-02-20 PennantPark Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast PennantPark Floating's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in PennantPark Floating's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for PennantPark Floating stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current PennantPark Floating's open interest, investors have to compare it to PennantPark Floating's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of PennantPark Floating is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in PennantPark. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

PennantPark Floating Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine PennantPark price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for PennantPark using various technical indicators. When you analyze PennantPark charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.
Forecasting cash, or other financial indicators, requires analysts to apply different statistical methods, techniques, and algorithms to find hidden patterns within the PennantPark Floating's financial statements to predict how it will affect future prices.
 
Cash  
First Reported
2011-03-31
Previous Quarter
102.7 M
Current Value
122.7 M
Quarterly Volatility
36.1 M
 
Credit Downgrade
 
Yuan Drop
 
Covid
A naive forecasting model for PennantPark Floating is a special case of the moving average forecasting where the number of periods used for smoothing is one. Therefore, the forecast of PennantPark Floating Rate value for a given trading day is simply the observed value for the previous period. Due to the simplistic nature of the naive forecasting model, it can only be used to forecast up to one period.

PennantPark Floating Naive Prediction Price Forecast For the 3rd of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Naive Prediction forecasted value of PennantPark Floating Rate on the next trading day is expected to be 9.30 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.12, mean absolute percentage error of 0.02, and the sum of the absolute errors of 7.58.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict PennantPark Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that PennantPark Floating's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

PennantPark Floating Stock Forecast Pattern

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PennantPark Floating Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting PennantPark Floating's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. PennantPark Floating's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 8.14 and 10.45, respectively. We have considered PennantPark Floating's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
9.40
9.30
Expected Value
10.45
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Naive Prediction forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of PennantPark Floating stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent PennantPark Floating stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria114.3425
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation0.1242
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0138
SAESum of the absolute errors7.5782
This model is not at all useful as a medium-long range forecasting tool of PennantPark Floating Rate. This model is simplistic and is included partly for completeness and partly because of its simplicity. It is unlikely that you'll want to use this model directly to predict PennantPark Floating. Instead, consider using either the moving average model or the more general weighted moving average model with a higher (i.e., greater than 1) number of periods, and possibly a different set of weights.

Predictive Modules for PennantPark Floating

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as PennantPark Floating Rate. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
8.139.2710.41
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
8.789.9211.06
Details
8 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
9.8110.7911.97
Details

Other Forecasting Options for PennantPark Floating

For every potential investor in PennantPark, whether a beginner or expert, PennantPark Floating's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. PennantPark Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in PennantPark. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying PennantPark Floating's price trends.

PennantPark Floating Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with PennantPark Floating stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of PennantPark Floating could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing PennantPark Floating by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
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PennantPark Floating Rate Technical and Predictive Analytics

The stock market is financially volatile. Despite the volatility, there exist limitless possibilities of gaining profits and building passive income portfolios. With the complexity of PennantPark Floating's price movements, a comprehensive understanding of forecasting methods that an investor can rely on to make the right move is invaluable. These methods predict trends that assist an investor in predicting the movement of PennantPark Floating's current price.

PennantPark Floating Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how PennantPark Floating stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading PennantPark Floating shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying PennantPark Floating stock market strength indicators, traders can identify PennantPark Floating Rate entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

PennantPark Floating Risk Indicators

The analysis of PennantPark Floating's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in PennantPark Floating's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting pennantpark stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

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