Gevo, Inc. (GEVO)Basic Materials | Specialty Chemicals | Englewood, United States | NasdaqCM
1.80 USD
+0.10
(5.882%)
⇧
(April 20, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
Short-term: ★☆☆☆☆ | Long-term: ★☆☆☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 11:27 p.m. EDT
Gevo presents a high-risk speculative trap. Despite a 'Buy' recommendation based on long-term renewable fuel potential, the quantitative reality is bleak: negative earnings, massive option put skew, and deteriorating price action from $2.78 to $1.72 in two weeks. The $2.00 strike is acting as a heavy discount floor where institutional and retail sellers are placing defensive hedges. Until there is a breaking of this bullish volume/short-covering floor with active call buying, the asset is a 'Hold/Avoid' waiting for better thesis validation. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL ✓ | 0.099927 |
| AutoETS | 0.102507 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.105758 |
| AutoTheta | 0.107474 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 45% |
| H-stat | 7.40 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.124 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.52 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 35.555 |
| Revenue per Share | 0.686 |
| Market Cap | 437,188,320 |
| Forward P/E | -90.00 |
| Beta | 1.20 |
| Profit Margins | -21.07% |
| Website | https://gevo.com |
As of April 18, 2026, 11:27 p.m. EDT: Speculator positioning is overwhelmingly bearish in the immediate term. Near-term April 17 calls show weak volume and low Open Interest (OI) relative to a massive defensive wall of put OI at the $2.0 strike. Specifically, for April expiration, $2.00 calls have minimal interest versus $420 volume in $2.00 puts. Conversely, the longer-dated interim map reveals significant put accumulation, with high OI at $2.00 through $3.00 strikes for May and August expirations. Volume analysis confirms the sentiment: April 17 put volume is 11x the call volume. This heavy activity on downside protection near key support ($2.00) suggests a high-conviction expectation of a bounce-to-collapse or solidifying downside rather than a momentum rally.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.5126051 |
| Address1 | Building C |
| Address2 | Suite 310 345 Inverness Drive South |
| All Time High | 158,160.0 |
| All Time Low | 0.46 |
| Ask | 1.84 |
| Ask Size | 14 |
| Audit Risk | 9 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 2.0 - Buy |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 5,601,380 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 4,119,629 |
| Average Volume | 4,119,629 |
| Average Volume10Days | 5,601,380 |
| Beta | 1.202 |
| Bid | 1.8 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 5 |
| Book Value | 1.974 |
| City | Englewood |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 4 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 1.8 |
| Current Ratio | 1.825 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,774,915,200 |
| Day High | 1.82 |
| Day Low | 1.64 |
| Debt To Equity | 35.555 |
| Display Name | Gevo |
| Dividend Date | 1,528,070,400 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,772,746,200 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,772,746,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,772,744,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,778,011,200 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,778,011,200 |
| Ebitda | 6,458,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.04022 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 80.055 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 3.22 |
| Enterprise Value | 516,995,424 |
| Eps Current Year | -0.04 |
| Eps Forward | -0.02 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -0.14 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NCM |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 2.0848 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | -0.28480005 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | -0.13660786 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 51.260506 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 2.97 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -1.1700001 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.3939394 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 1.0 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 0.79999995 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.79999995 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 1.0 - 2.97 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,297,261,800,000 |
| Float Shares | 226,291,404 |
| Forward Eps | -0.02 |
| Forward P E | -90.0 |
| Free Cashflow | -6,682,625 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqCM |
| Full Time Employees | 151 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,775,001,600 |
| Gross Margins | 0.38740003 |
| Gross Profits | 62,208,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.0414 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.36620998 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 242,882,393 |
| Industry | Specialty Chemicals |
| Industry Disp | Specialty Chemicals |
| Industry Key | specialty-chemicals |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 1 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Last Split Date | 1,528,070,400 |
| Last Split Factor | 1:20 |
| Long Business Summary | Gevo, Inc. operates as a carbon abatement company. It operates in four segments: Gevo, GevoFuels, GevoRNG, and GevoND. The company offers sustainable aviation fuel, motor fuels, and chemicals and materials; certain specialty fuels, on-road fuels, and certain products for the food chain comprising protein and feeds; hydrocarbons for gasoline, racing fuel blend stocks, and diesel fuel; ethylene and butenes; plastics and materials; and renewable natural gas, isobutanol, and isooctane. It is also involved in development, construction, and operation of Alcohol-to-Jet projects; provision of GevoRNG, a project which leverages anaerobic digestion technology to capture and convert methane emissions into renewable natural gas; and operates Verity platform that tracks, measures, and verifies various attributes throughout the supply chain. In addition, it offers products manufactured by ethanol plant, including ethanol and distillers grains. The company was formerly known as Methanotech, Inc. and changed its name to Gevo, Inc. in March 2006. Gevo, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. |
| Long Name | Gevo, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 437,188,320 |
| Market State | PRE |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_33143266 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,767,139,200 |
| Net Income To Common | -33,836,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 437,188,307 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 4 |
| Open | 1.68 |
| Operating Cashflow | -13,401,000 |
| Operating Margins | -0.1182 |
| Overall Risk | 6 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Phone | 303 858 8358 |
| Pre Market Change | 0.00999999 |
| Pre Market Change Percent | 0.55555505 |
| Pre Market Price | 1.81 |
| Pre Market Time | 1,776,777,671 |
| Previous Close | 1.7 |
| Price Eps Current Year | -45.0 |
| Price Hint | 4 |
| Price To Book | 0.9118541 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 2.7225578 |
| Profit Margins | -0.21070999 |
| Quick Ratio | 1.152 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | buy |
| Recommendation Mean | 2.0 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.1 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 5.88235 |
| Regular Market Day High | 1.82 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 1.64 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 1.64 - 1.82 |
| Regular Market Open | 1.68 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 1.7 |
| Regular Market Price | 1.8 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,715,201 |
| Regular Market Volume | 6,452,754 |
| Return On Assets | -0.018099999 |
| Return On Equity | -0.067930005 |
| Revenue Growth | 6.956 |
| Revenue Per Share | 0.686 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.34445214 |
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Sector Disp | Basic Materials |
| Sector Key | basic-materials |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 8 |
| Shares Outstanding | 242,882,393 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.1249 |
| Shares Short | 30,325,917 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,772,150,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 33,085,534 |
| Short Name | Gevo, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.1297 |
| Short Ratio | 5.82 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CO |
| Symbol | GEVO |
| Target High Price | 14.0 |
| Target Low Price | 2.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 5.4375 |
| Target Median Price | 2.875 |
| Total Cash | 81,163,000 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 0.343 |
| Total Debt | 167,522,000 |
| Total Revenue | 160,580,000 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -0.14 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 1.973 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -0.1730001 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.087683775 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 6,452,754 |
| Website | https://gevo.com |
| Zip | 80,112 |