Novartis AG ADR (NYSE: NVS) – Time For Strategy Change?

Novartis AG ADR (NYSE:NVS) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.38M but it saw 4207292 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 196.21B USD, the company’s current market price of $103.40 came falling about -0.43 while comparing to the previous closing price of $103.85. 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 $100.49 while lowest mark touched by it was $104.3399.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Novartis AG ADR (NVS) gives us an average price of $109.40, while its current price level is -14.49% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 11.97% 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 $108.96 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $108.76. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 4.48% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.14%. 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 37.72 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, NVS’s stock price is moving -7.89% down while it is -4.82% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 6.26% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 7.92%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-30, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 2.08 while estimate for next year EPS is 8.51. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $13.7B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $53.15B and seeing the company making $53.98B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $12.99B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Novartis AG ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.98B with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 6.72% 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 17.61 while having a 11.80 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.61. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.64 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.90. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.34% on average.