NPK International Inc (NYSE:NPKI) does about 671.20K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 288220 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 599.43M USD. Its current market price is $6.93, marking a decrease of -5.07% compared to the previous close of $7.30. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $8.65 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $5.61.
NPK International Inc (NPKI) has a 20-day trading average at $7.82 and the current price is -19.88% off the 52-week high compared with 23.53% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $7.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.56. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.31%, which decreases to 3.93% 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 41.69 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $11.25, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 38.4% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 09, 2024 when B. Riley Securities initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $10. H.C. Wainwright initiated its price target at $12.
The current price level is -11.34%, -6.36%, and -8.35% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the NPKI price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. NPK International Inc (NPKI) stock is down -4.07% over the week and -7.70% over the past month. Its price is 10.09% year-to-date and 4.73% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 38.4 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 86.50M with insiders holding 9.17% of the shares and institutional holders owning 88.10% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 10.93% and return on equity of 8.14%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 16.71 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 19.07. The beta has a value of 2.94. Price to book ratio is 1.89 and price to sales ratio is 1.07.
