Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NYSE: NAT) Emerges As Guiding Light For Investors

Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NYSE:NAT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.13M but it saw 3213638 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 701.57M USD, the company’s current market price of $3.36 came falling about -3.17 while comparing to the previous closing price of $3.47. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $4.83 and as low as $3.31. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $3.36 while lowest mark touched by it was $3.45.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Jefferies which downgraded the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on September 12, 2024, recommending a price target of $4 for it. Jefferies upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on September 06, 2022 while assigning a price target range of $3-$4. Jefferies issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $3.

Over the week, NAT’s stock price is moving -5.08% down while it is -10.16% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -20.00% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -19.04%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.04 beaten by the consensus estimate of 0.05 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in November, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.05 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.41. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $87.3M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $281.3M and seeing the company making $323M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $64M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Nordic American Tankers Ltd’s total number of outstanding shares is 208.80M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.64% and return on equity (ROE) at 11.44%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 11.38 while having a 6.13 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads -0.24. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.33 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.12. Its return on asset (ROA) is 7.07% on average.