Taking everything into account, APTO scores 0 out of 10 in our technical rating. APTO's overall performance in the market is below average. Also recent evolutions are not that positive. Both the medium and short term picture give negative signs.
The short term trend is negative, as is the long term trend. There should be more interesting stocks out there.
When comparing the yearly performance of all stocks, APTO is a bad performer in the overall market: 100% of all stocks are doing better.
APTO is part of the Biotechnology industry. There are 568 other stocks in this industry, of which 91% are performing better than APTO.
APTO is currently making a new 52 week low. This is a very bad signal. APTO is lagging the S&P500 Index which is trading in the middle of its 52 week range.
In the last month APTO has a been trading in the 1.35 - 3.98 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the lows of this range.
Prices have been falling strongly lately, it is better to avoid new long positions here.
APTO has an average volume of 7142300 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.
Considerably lower volume is observed in the last couple of days.