Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) Research Coverage Started at StockNews.com

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

Aware Price Performance

AWRE opened at $1.60 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $33.92 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -4.44 and a beta of 0.82. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $1.78 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $1.94. Aware has a 1 year low of $1.35 and a 1 year high of $2.97.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in AWRE. Renaissance Technologies LLC grew its holdings in shares of Aware by 3.7% in the 2nd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 717,773 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $1,414,000 after acquiring an additional 25,800 shares in the last quarter. Corsair Capital Management L.P. acquired a new position in Aware during the third quarter valued at approximately $146,000. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC grew its stake in 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 in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 24.39% of the company’s stock.

About Aware

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.