Northern Oil and Gas Inc (NYSE: NOG) is -19.31% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $19.88 and a high of $44.31 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 NOG stock was last observed hovering at around $31.07 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.35%.
Currently trading at $30.72, the stock is 1.60% and 8.50% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.98 million and changing -1.13% at the moment leaves the stock -8.33% off its SMA200. NOG registered -17.33% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -19.79%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $28.314 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $33.5133.
The stock witnessed a 6.85% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 36.29%, and is 5.42% 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 3.58% over the week and 3.63% over the month.
Northern Oil and Gas Inc (NOG) has around 49 employees, a market worth around $3.03B and $2.21B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 4.78 and Fwd P/E is 8.33. Profit margin for the company is 29.32%. Distance from 52-week low is 54.53% and -30.67% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.74%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -15.72% this year
489.0 institutions hold shares in Northern Oil and Gas Inc (NOG), with institutional investors hold 127.20% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 98.70M, and float is at 95.82M with Short Float at 19.50%. Institutions hold 117.60% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 14.28 million shares valued at $530.85 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.2436 of the NOG Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 10.64 million shares valued at $395.49 million to account for 10.6116 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 10.43 million shares representing 10.4007 and valued at over $387.62 million, while AMERICAN CENTURY COMPANIES INC holds 5.5517 of the shares totaling 5.57 million with a market value of $206.91 million.
Northern Oil and Gas Inc (NOG) Insider Activity
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 07 ’25, O’GRADY NICHOLAS L. (CEO) acquired 1,000 shares at an average price of $27.48 for $27480.0. The insider now directly holds 226,189 shares of Northern Oil and Gas Inc (NOG).