NPK International Inc (NYSE:NPKI) does about 819.42K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1250234 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 660.12M USD. Its current market price is $7.81, marking a decrease of -1.51% compared to the previous close of $7.93. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $8.65 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $4.76.
NPK International Inc (NPKI) has a 20-day trading average at $5.89 and the current price is -9.71% off the 52-week high compared with 64.08% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $5.87 and its 200-day simple moving average is $7.03. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 6.09%, which decreases to 6.03% 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 75.89 to suggest the stock is overbought.
The consensus objective for the share price is $11.25, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 30.58% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 27, 2025 when B. Riley Securities resumed the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $11. ROTH MKM initiated its price target at $10.
The current price level is 32.50%, 32.96%, and 11.10% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the NPKI price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. NPK International Inc (NPKI) stock is up 34.89% over the week and 54.65% over the past month. Its price is 1.83% year-to-date and 11.25% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 30.58 percent from here.
Outstanding shares total 84.73M with insiders holding 8.48% of the shares and institutional holders owning 95.73% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 14.07% and return on equity of 11.04%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 14.16 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 16.50. The beta has a value of 2.03. Price to book ratio is 2.02 and price to sales ratio is 1.91.
