ASTI Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Ascent Solar Technologies | NASDAQ:ASTI)

Ascent Solar Technologies Inc is a solar technology company that manufactures and sells photovoltaic (PV) solar modules that are flexible, durable, and possess attractive power to weight and power to area performance. Its technology provides renewable power solutions to high-value production and specialty solar markets where traditional rigid solar panels are not suitable, including space power beaming, aerospace, satellites, near earth orbiting vehicles, fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), aquatic, terrestrial, and other weight-sensitive markets with transformational high quality, value added product applications. It operates in single PV segment that sells PV products and engineering services and currently, is selling it in North America.

Ascent Solar Technologies trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol ASTI.

As of April 22, 2026, ASTI stock price climbed to $4.97 with 783,321 million shares trading.

ASTI has a beta of 3.32, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ASTI has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ASTI has a market cap of $47.03 million. This is considered a Sub-Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, ASTI traded as high as $6,200.00 and as low as $1.10.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ASTI belongs to (by Net Assets): VXF.

ASTI has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +231.3% while the SPY ETF gained +36.3%. However, in the short term, ASTI had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -27.0% vs +3.5% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, ASTI shares have fared better than the market returning +22.1% compared to SPY +5.2%.

ASTI support price is $4.36 and resistance is $5.44 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ASTI shares will trade within this expected range on the day.