John S. Stafford III Buys 8,758 Shares of Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) Stock

Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) Director John S. Stafford III bought 8,758 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 12th. The stock was purchased at an average price of $1.65 per share, for a total transaction of $14,450.70. Following the completion of the purchase, the director now owns 5,060,569 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,349,938.85. This trade represents a 0.17 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink.

Aware Trading Up 5.8 %

Shares of NASDAQ:AWRE opened at $1.64 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average of $1.61 and a 200 day moving average of $1.74. The stock has a market cap of $34.77 million, a P/E ratio of -4.56 and a beta of 0.66. Aware, Inc. has a 12 month low of $1.35 and a 12 month high of $2.97.

Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March 5th. The software maker reported ($0.06) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Aware had a negative return on equity of 14.46% and a negative net margin of 44.06%. The business had revenue of $4.80 million during the quarter.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Aware in a research note on Thursday. They set a “buy” rating on the stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

An institutional investor recently raised its position in Aware stock. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its stake in Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) by 28.9% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 168,740 shares of the software maker’s stock after buying an additional 37,828 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC owned approximately 0.80% of Aware worth $316,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. 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.