Do Investors Have Much Faith In Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (AMEX: NAK)

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (AMEX:NAK) does about 1.70M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 3581565 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 352.21M USD. Its current market price is $0.47, marking a decrease of -2.59% compared to the previous close of $0.48. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $0.56 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $0.23. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $1.3 and a low of $1.3.

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (NAK) has a 20-day trading average at $0.4268 and the current price is -16.07% off the 52-week high compared with 104.26% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $0.3749 and its 200-day simple moving average is $0.3244. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 10.71%, which decreases to 8.58% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 60.95 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $1.30, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 63.85% over the period. The median price target is 63.85% away from the current levels at $1.3.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 19, 2017 when H.C. Wainwright initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $2.50.

The current price level is 10.13%, 25.38%, and 44.87% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the NAK price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (NAK) stock is up 12.12% over the week and 28.77% over the past month. Its price is 45.38% year-to-date and 41.48% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and -0.02 for whole year.

Its 12-month price target is $1.3. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 63.85 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $1.3, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $1.3.

The company has a return on investment of -14.24% and return on equity of -13.52%. The beta has a value of 0.57. Price to book ratio is 2.92.