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Traders Get Bullish on Shares of Gastar Exploration, Shares Up 9.4% (GST)
Feb 07, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) Spotlight via COMTEX) --
Gastar Exploration (AMEX:GST) is one of today's best performing low-priced stocks, up 9.4% to $1.28 on 1.1x average daily volume. Gastar Exploration has traded 356,000 shares thus far today, vs. average volume of 337,000 shares per day. The stock has outperformed the Dow (9.4% to the Dow's -0.7%) and outperformed the S&P 500 (9.4% to the S&P's -0.7%) during today's trading.
Potential upside of 59.5% exists for Gastar Exploration, based on a current level of $1.28 and analysts' average consensus price target of $2.04. The stock should find resistance at its 200-day moving average (MA) of $1.57, as well as support at its 50-day MA of $1.08.
Gastar Exploration Ltd. is a natural gas exploration company. The Company explores for natural gas in Texas and West Virginia in the United States, and in Australia. Gastar owns and operates coal bed methane properties in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming in the United States.
In the past 52 weeks, Gastar Exploration share prices have been bracketed by a low of $0.70 and a high of $3.36 and are now at $1.28, 83% above that low price. Over the past week, the 200-day moving average (MA) has gone down 1.3% while the 50-day MA has advanced 2.0%.
SmarTrend recommended that subscribers consider buying shares of Gastar Exploration on November 30th, 2012 as our proprietary SmarTrend analytics indicated a new Uptrend was in progress when shares hit $1.00. Since that recommendation, shares of Gastar Exploration have risen 17.6%. We continue to monitor GST for any potential shift so investors can protect gains and will alert SmarTrend subscribers immediately.
Write to Chip Brian at cbrian@mysmartrend.com
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