MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE:MDU) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.67M but it saw 1954697 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.50B USD, the company’s current market price of $17.13 came rising about 2.64 while comparing to the previous closing price of $16.69. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $20.39 and as low as $13.22.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Jefferies which initiated the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on January 08, 2025, recommending a price target of $18 for it. BofA Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on November 05, 2024 while assigning a price target of $17. Siebert Williams Shank issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $19.
Year-to-date it is -4.94% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 22.66%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.11 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.96. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $299.31M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $1.85B and seeing the company making $1.99B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $315.67M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, MDU Resources Group Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 204.33M with 0.93% of that held by the insiders while 82.65% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.49% and return on equity (ROE) at 9.63%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 13.38 while having a 16.53 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.77. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.28 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.06. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.73% on average.
