Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc (NYSE: NGVC) is 20.24% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $15.82 and a high of $50.91 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The NGVC stock was last observed hovering at around $47.71 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.05%.
Currently trading at $47.76, the stock is 12.74% and 12.19% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.13 million and changing 0.10% at the moment leaves the stock 38.33% off its SMA200. NGVC registered 192.47% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 78.01%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $42.5704 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $34.52675.
The stock witnessed a 25.03% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 19.52%, and is 2.53% 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 4.24% over the week and 5.90% over the month.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc (NGVC) has around 4145 employees, a market worth around $1.10B and $1.27B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 30.59 and Fwd P/E is 22.85. Profit margin for the company is 2.84%. Distance from 52-week low is 201.90% and -6.18% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (7.39%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 18.37% this year
205.0 institutions hold shares in Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc (NGVC), with institutional investors hold 62.09% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 22.93M, and float is at 9.32M with Short Float at 3.52%. Institutions hold 34.51% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP with over 1.31 million shares valued at $27.83 million. The investor’s holdings represent 5.7677 of the NGVC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 0.66 million shares valued at $13.93 million to account for 2.8829 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 0.64 million shares representing 2.8098 and valued at over $13.56 million, while RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC holds 2.5622 of the shares totaling 0.58 million with a market value of $12.38 million.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc (NGVC) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Isely Charity, the company’s 13D Group Member. SEC filings show that Isely Charity sold 2,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Dec 10 ’24 at a price of $43.73 per share for a total of $87460.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 12290.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 03 ’24, Isely Lark (13D Group Member) disposed off 4,000 shares at an average price of $44.66 for $0.18 million. The insider now directly holds 8,682 shares of Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc (NGVC).
