National Fuel Gas Co (NYSE: NFG) is 55.34% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $54.05 and a high of $86.45 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 NFG stock was last observed hovering at around $83.93 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.28%.
Currently trading at $84.21, the stock is 0.29% and 2.57% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.45 million and changing 0.33% at the moment leaves the stock 18.95% off its SMA200. NFG registered 38.78% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 38.16%.
The stock witnessed a 0.66% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 5.32%, and is -0.15% 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 1.60% over the week and 1.61% over the month.
National Fuel Gas Co (NFG) has around 2311 employees, a market worth around $7.61B and $1.91B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 191.87 and Fwd P/E is 9.90. Profit margin for the company is 2.07%. Distance from 52-week low is 55.80% and -2.59% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.77%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 38.56% this year
The shares outstanding are 90.40M, and float is at 89.07M with Short Float at 2.61%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 13.31 million shares valued at $721.1 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.4837 of the NFG Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 8.42 million shares valued at $456.52 million to account for 9.1696 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 4.0 million shares representing 4.3498 and valued at over $218.61 million, while JPMORGAN CHASE & CO holds 3.096 of the shares totaling 2.84 million with a market value of $154.14 million.
National Fuel Gas Co (NFG) Insider Activity
National Fuel Gas Co disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Dec 05 ’24 that DeCarolis Donna L (President – NFG Dist. Corp.) sold a total of 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Dec 05 ’24 and was made at $62.58 per share for $0.63 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 81519.0 shares of the NFG stock.
