Novartis AG ADR (NYSE: NVS): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

Novartis AG ADR (NYSE:NVS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.16M but it saw 1467063 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 211.39B USD, the company’s current market price of $111.40 came rising about 1.14 while comparing to the previous closing price of $110.14. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $120.92 and as low as $92.35. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $111.11 while lowest mark touched by it was $111.64.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Novartis AG ADR (NVS) gives us an average price of $111.47, while its current price level is -7.87% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 20.63% 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 $107.48 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $108.66. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.30% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.26%. 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 54.30 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, NVS’s stock price is moving -1.60% down while it is 3.13% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 14.48% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 16.37%.

Currently, Novartis AG ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.98B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 6.78% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 17.83% and return on equity (ROE) at 26.33%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 18.97 while having a 12.84 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.57. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 5.00 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.20. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.34% on average.