Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) Short Interest Update

Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) saw a significant drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totalling 44,300 shares, a drop of 6.7% from the March 15th total of 47,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 54,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.8 days. Approximately 0.3% of the company’s stock are short sold.

Aware Stock Up 5.5 %

AWRE opened at $1.72 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $36.26 million, a P/E ratio of -4.91 and a beta of 0.78. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $1.82 and its 200-day moving average is $1.64. Aware has a 52-week low of $1.05 and a 52-week high of $2.10.

Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March 12th. The software maker reported ($0.07) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The company had revenue of $4.37 million during the quarter. Aware had a negative return on equity of 14.28% and a negative net margin of 40.09%.

Institutional Trading of Aware

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP increased its stake in shares of Aware by 0.7% in the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,583,497 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $4,750,000 after buying an additional 11,215 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in shares of Aware by 8.3% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 660,402 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,981,000 after buying an additional 50,754 shares during the last quarter. Herald Investment Management Ltd increased its stake in shares of Aware by 202.9% in the third quarter. Herald Investment Management Ltd now owns 430,000 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $585,000 after buying an additional 288,057 shares during the last quarter. Thompson Davis & CO. Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Aware in the fourth quarter worth $156,000. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Aware by 60.2% in the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 79,072 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $125,000 after buying an additional 29,705 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 24.39% of the company’s stock.

Aware Company Profile

Aware, Inc, a authentication company, provides biometrics software products and solutions for government agencies and commercial entities in the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company offers biometric software solution, which includes 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.