New Fortress Energy Inc (NASDAQ: NFE) is -20.30% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $7.82 and a high of $35.58 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The NFE stock was last observed hovering at around $12.35 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.3%.
Currently trading at $12.05, the stock is -11.07% and -13.20% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.91 million and changing -2.43% at the moment leaves the stock -21.48% off its SMA200. NFE registered -62.99% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of -7.94%.
The stock witnessed a -22.86% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 40.77%, and is 3.34% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.12% over the week and 5.65% over the month.
New Fortress Energy Inc (NFE) has around 1390 employees, a market worth around $3.29B and $2.44B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 13.34 and Fwd P/E is 86.24. Profit margin for the company is 7.74%. Distance from 52-week low is 54.09% and -66.13% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.10%).
with sales reaching $613.24M over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -95.89% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -4.47% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -19.14% in year-over-year returns.
The shares outstanding are 205.10M, and float is at 169.33M with Short Float at 18.04%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is GREAT MOUNTAIN PARTNERS LLC with over 25.56 million shares valued at $561.81 million. The investor’s holdings represent 12.4639 of the NFE Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS with 17.8 million shares valued at $391.19 million to account for 8.6787 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP LLC which holds 13.4 million shares representing 6.534 and valued at over $294.52 million, while WILLIAM BLAIR INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC holds 4.6566 of the shares totaling 9.55 million with a market value of $209.9 million.
New Fortress Energy Inc (NFE) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by EDENS WESLEY R, the company’s Chief Executive Officer. SEC filings show that EDENS WESLEY R bought 5,793,742 shares of the company’s common stock on Oct 01 ’24 at a price of $8.63 per share for a total of $50.0 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 35.72 million shares.
