--- title: "AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) Stock Price Down 6.4% Following Insider Selling" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/268144529.md" description: "AST SpaceMobile's stock (NASDAQ:ASTS) fell 6.4% after CFO Andrew Martin Johnson sold 10,000 shares. The stock traded as low as $52.20, with a significant drop in trading volume. Analysts have mixed ratings on the stock, with some downgrades and a few upgrades. The company reported a Q3 loss, missing earnings estimates, but showed a significant revenue increase compared to last year. Institutional investors hold a significant portion of the stock. AST SpaceMobile develops space-based cellular broadband networks." datetime: "2025-12-01T21:53:33.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/268144529.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/268144529.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/268144529.md) --- > Supported Languages: [简体中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/268144529.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/268144529.md) # AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) Stock Price Down 6.4% Following Insider Selling AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTS - Get Free Report) traded down 6.4% on Monday following insider selling activity. The stock traded as low as $52.20 and last traded at $52.61. 6,740,986 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 44% from the average session volume of 11,997,284 shares. The stock had previously closed at $56.20. Get **AST SpaceMobile** alerts: - Here's What We Learned From AST SpaceMobile's Q3 Earnings Report Specifically, CFO Andrew Martin Johnson sold 10,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $56.00, for a total transaction of $560,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 387,485 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $21,699,160. The trade was a 2.52% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. ## Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades A number of analysts have weighed in on ASTS shares. Zacks Research downgraded shares of AST SpaceMobile from a "hold" rating to a "strong sell" rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 21st. Scotiabank raised AST SpaceMobile from a "sector underperform" rating to a "sector perform" rating and set a $45.60 price target for the company in a research report on Monday, November 24th. Barclays downgraded AST SpaceMobile from an "overweight" rating to an "underweight" rating and set a $60.00 price objective for the company. in a research note on Friday, October 17th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a "sell (e+)" rating on shares of AST SpaceMobile in a research note on Monday, November 24th. Finally, UBS Group lowered shares of AST SpaceMobile from a "buy" rating to a "neutral" rating and reduced their price target for the company from $62.00 to $43.00 in a research report on Tuesday, September 9th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, AST SpaceMobile has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $45.66. - Are These 3 Beaten-Down Stocks Ready to Rebound? **View Our Latest Report on AST SpaceMobile** ## AST SpaceMobile Trading Down 6.4% The firm has a market capitalization of $19.31 billion, a P/E ratio of -42.43 and a beta of 2.77. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $67.84 and a 200 day simple moving average of $51.77. The company has a quick ratio of 9.48, a current ratio of 9.56 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43. - The Best AI for Picking Stocks, Ranked by Performance AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Monday, November 10th. The company reported ($0.45) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.18) by ($0.27). AST SpaceMobile had a negative net margin of 1,639.59% and a negative return on equity of 27.76%. The business had revenue of $14.74 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $22.04 million. During the same period last year, the business posted ($1.10) earnings per share. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 1236.4% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that AST SpaceMobile, Inc. will post -0.4 EPS for the current year. ## Institutional Trading of AST SpaceMobile Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of ASTS. Rakuten Group Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of AST SpaceMobile in the first quarter worth about $705,398,000. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in AST SpaceMobile by 13.4% during the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 19,919,888 shares of the company's stock worth $977,668,000 after buying an additional 2,351,539 shares during the last quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of AST SpaceMobile during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $90,129,000. Voya Investment Management LLC raised its holdings in AST SpaceMobile by 1,992.5% in the 1st quarter. Voya Investment Management LLC now owns 843,554 shares of the company's stock valued at $19,182,000 after buying an additional 803,240 shares during the period. Finally, Jump Financial LLC purchased a new stake in shares of AST SpaceMobile in the 1st quarter valued at $14,750,000. Institutional investors own 60.95% of the company's stock. ## About AST SpaceMobile (Get Free Report) AST SpaceMobile, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops and provides access to a space-based cellular broadband network for smartphones in the United States. Its SpaceMobile service provides cellular broadband services to end-users who are out of terrestrial cellular coverage. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas. ## See Also - Five stocks we like better than AST SpaceMobile - Trading Stocks: RSI and Why it's Useful - Go on a Shopping Spree With 3 Top Retail ETFs - How to Capture the Benefits of Dividend Increases - If D-Wave Is Too Risky, Consider These 3 Quantum ETFs for Diversification - Conference Calls and Individual Investors - NVIDIA’s 13F Reveals 2 Q3 Winners—And 1 Painful Miss _This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to contact@marketbeat.com._ ## Should You Invest $1,000 in AST SpaceMobile Right Now? Before you consider AST SpaceMobile, you'll want to hear this. MarketBeat keeps track of Wall Street's top-rated and best performing research analysts and the stocks they recommend to their clients on a daily basis. MarketBeat has identified the five stocks that top analysts are quietly whispering to their clients to buy now before the broader market catches on... and AST SpaceMobile wasn't on the list. While AST SpaceMobile currently has a Hold rating among analysts, top-rated analysts believe these five stocks are better buys. View The Five Stocks Here ### Related Stocks - [AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (ASTS.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/ASTS.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 Launch Puts Direct To Device Tests In Focus](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281625184.md) - [Prediction: AST SpaceMobile Stock Will Soar in 2026](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281529615.md) - [Very strong conviction on SpaceX ahead of its IPO, says ERShares' Eva Ados](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281413952.md) - [SpaceX could allocate up to 30% of IPO shares to retail investors, report says](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281552835.md) - [SpaceX Files Confidentially For IPO, Setting Up Record-Breaking Offering](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281404553.md)