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

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

Aware Stock Down 0.7 %

NASDAQ:AWRE opened at $1.50 on Thursday. The company’s 50 day moving average is $1.82 and its 200-day moving average is $1.96. Aware has a 12 month low of $1.35 and a 12 month high of $2.97. The firm has a market cap of $31.81 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.17 and a beta of 0.82.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its position in shares of Aware by 28.9% in the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 168,740 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $316,000 after purchasing an additional 37,828 shares during the last quarter. Corsair Capital Management L.P. bought a new stake in shares of Aware in the third quarter valued at approximately $146,000. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC grew its stake in shares of 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 acquiring an additional 25,800 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds 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.