Spotting A Winner: National Cinemedia Inc (NASDAQ: NCMI) Advances 0.88 And It Still Have Room To Run

National Cinemedia Inc (NASDAQ:NCMI) currently has a daily average trading volume of 462.64K but it saw 255066 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 656.87M USD, the company’s current market price of $6.86 came rising about 0.88 while comparing to the previous closing price of $6.80. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $7.39 and as low as $3.63. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $6.77 while lowest mark touched by it was $6.905.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of National Cinemedia Inc (NCMI) gives us an average price of $6.80, while its current price level is -7.17% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 88.72% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $6.85 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $5.59. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.53% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.78%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 51.53 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the The Benchmark Company which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on August 15, 2024, recommending a price target of $8 for it. B. Riley Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on March 19, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $4.50-$6.75. B. Riley Securities issued its recommendations for the stock as it resumed the price target for the stock is $4.50.

Over the week, NCMI’s stock price is moving 2.54% up while it is -4.32% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 65.70% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 61.03%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 0.28 beat the consensus estimate of 0.08 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in December, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.31 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.01. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $43.58M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $238.22M and seeing the company making $284.55M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $83.72M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, National Cinemedia Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 96.84M with 13.55% of that held by the insiders while 85.82% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -5.71% and return on equity (ROE) at -5.86%. It has a 37.42 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.06. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.69 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.68. Its return on asset (ROA) is -4.38% on average.