With 0.58 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.45 million shares. During the session, the Software – Application company that operates in wider Technology sector, reached to the highest price of $33.4925 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $32.59. The 52-week range on NATL shows that it touched its highest point at $35.50 and its lowest point at $18.42 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $44.40. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.13.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of NATL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.68%, but this was down by -1.14% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 15.02% while six-month performance rose 20.26%. The stock gained 42.84% in the past year, while it has lost -2.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NATL yields -1.68 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.92. For the next quarter, that number is 1.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of 270.76% for this year and 24.63% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 70.90 million NATL shares are outstanding with a float of 70.77 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-13, short shares totaled 3.64 million, which was 502.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1731628800. In addition to Mr. Timothy C. Oliver as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Paul J. Campbell serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.97556996 of NATL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, NATL reported revenue of $1078000000.0 and operating income of $124000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $193000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.32.
Analysts Ratings:
In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With NATL analysts setting a high price target of 60.0 and a low target of 33.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 43.6. Based on these targets, NATL could surge 81.76% to reach the target high and fall by -0.03% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 32.08% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.16939 being high and $3.12381 being low. For NATL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.142.
