Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) Now Covered by Analysts at StockNews.com

StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) in a research note released on Sunday morning. The brokerage issued a buy rating on the software maker’s stock.

Aware Trading Down 1.3 %

Aware stock opened at $1.52 on Friday. Aware has a 12 month low of $1.35 and a 12 month high of $2.97. The company has a market capitalization of $32.22 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.22 and a beta of 0.77. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $1.71 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $1.92.

Institutional Trading of Aware

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of AWRE. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Aware by 28.9% during the 3rd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 168,740 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $316,000 after buying an additional 37,828 shares during the period. Corsair Capital Management L.P. bought a new position in Aware in the third quarter valued at about $146,000. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC boosted its position in Aware by 3.7% in the second quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 717,773 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,414,000 after purchasing an additional 25,800 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 24.39% of the company’s stock.

Aware Company Profile

Aware, Inc, an authentication company, provides biometrics software products and solutions for government agencies and commercial entities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company offers biometric software solution, including 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, as well as AFIX Face, AFIX Verifier, AFIX Identifier, AFIX Comparator, AFIX Engine, and AFIX NIST Transaction Engine.