Northern Trust Corp (NASDAQ: NTRS) is -3.68% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $79.32 and a high of $114.67 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 NTRS stock was last observed hovering at around $97.95 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.78%.
Currently trading at $98.73, the stock is -0.80% and -7.24% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.25 million and changing 0.80% at the moment leaves the stock 1.10% off its SMA200. NTRS registered 11.64% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 9.66%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $106.439 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $97.6519.
The stock witnessed a -5.40% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -3.90%, and is -2.67% down 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 2.80% over the week and 2.54% over the month.
Northern Trust Corp (NTRS) has around 23300 employees, a market worth around $19.25B and $15.47B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 10.10 and Fwd P/E is 11.35. Profit margin for the company is 12.75%. Distance from 52-week low is 24.47% and -13.90% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (10.47%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -16.78% this year
1090.0 institutions hold shares in Northern Trust Corp (NTRS), with institutional investors hold 88.16% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 195.97M, and float is at 191.68M with Short Float at 1.76%. Institutions hold 87.53% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 22.95 million shares valued at $1.93 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.2166 of the NTRS Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is FMR LLC with 16.64 million shares valued at $1.4 billion to account for 8.1871 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 15.54 million shares representing 7.6454 and valued at over $1.31 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.3315 of the shares totaling 8.81 million with a market value of $746.08 million.
Northern Trust Corp (NTRS) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by South Thomas A, the company’s Executive Vice President. SEC filings show that South Thomas A sold 3,804 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 19 ’25 at a price of $113.00 per share for a total of $0.43 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 81794.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 04 ’25, Landers John (Controller) disposed off 900 shares at an average price of $111.44 for $0.1 million. The insider now directly holds 7,640 shares of Northern Trust Corp (NTRS).
