Nexstar Media Group Inc (NASDAQ:NXST) currently has a daily average trading volume of 483.30K but it saw 254459 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 5.02B USD, the company’s current market price of $166.59 came rising about 0.52 while comparing to the previous closing price of $165.72. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $191.86 and as low as $141.66. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $164.755 while lowest mark touched by it was $168.0474.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Loop Capital which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on February 28, 2025, recommending a price target of $200 for it. Loop Capital downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on November 08, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $200-$190. Wells Fargo also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $190 and $221.
Over the week, NXST’s stock price is moving -3.36% down while it is -4.41% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 5.46% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 10.65%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-08, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 3.47 while estimate for next year EPS is 14.2. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.22B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $4.94B and seeing the company making $5.43B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.21B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Nexstar Media Group Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 30.36M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.33% and return on equity (ROE) at 28.46%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 8.19 while having a 6.39 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.03. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.25 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.94. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.57% on average.
