Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) CEO Acquires $23,800.00 in Stock

Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) CEO Ajay K. Amlani purchased 14,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 10th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of $1.70 per share, for a total transaction of $23,800.00. Following the acquisition, the chief executive officer now owns 440,273 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $748,464.10. The trade was a 3.28% increase in their position. The acquisition was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website.

Aware Trading Up 3.6%

AWRE stock opened at $1.75 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $36.91 million, a P/E ratio of -4.86 and a beta of 0.71. The business’s 50 day moving average is $1.61 and its 200-day moving average is $1.61. Aware, Inc. has a 1-year low of $1.35 and a 1-year high of $2.97.

Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April 30th. The software maker reported ($0.08) earnings per share for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $3.61 million during the quarter. Aware had a negative return on equity of 14.46% and a negative net margin of 44.06%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Wall Street Zen assumed coverage on shares of Aware in a report on Friday, May 16th. They set a “buy” rating on the stock.

Institutional Trading of Aware

A hedge fund recently bought a new stake in Aware stock. GMT Capital Corp purchased a new stake in Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 24,600 shares of the software maker’s stock, valued at approximately $39,000. GMT Capital Corp owned 0.12% of Aware as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Hedge funds and other 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.