With 0.6 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.32 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Industrial Machinery company that operates in wider Industrials sector, reached to the highest price of $215.0 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $211.01. The 52-week range on NDSN shows that it touched its highest point at $279.38 and its lowest point at $196.83 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $254.67. With its current market cap of 12.19 billion, NDSN has annualized dividend of $2.92 while the current yield stands at 1.37%. NDSN paid its most recent dividend on 1735776000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1724716800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.95.
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 NDSN was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.80%, but this was down by -5.58% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -16.86% while six-month performance fell -12.13%. The stock lost -14.66% in the past year, while it has gained 2.19% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NDSN yields 8.11 with Next year EPS estimates of 10.89. For the next quarter, that number is 2.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 2.62% for this year and 9.06% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 13.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 6.97%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 57.20 million NDSN shares are outstanding with a float of 51.71 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-29, short shares totaled 0.86 million, which was 150.999995 higher than short shares on 1730332800. In addition to Mr. Sundaram Nagarajan as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. James E. DeVries serves as its Executive Vice President of Continuous Improvement.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.76671 of NDSN’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 2024-07-31, NDSN reported revenue of $744482000.0 and operating income of $178892000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $213171000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for NDSN since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With NDSN analysts setting a high price target of 285.0 and a low target of 237.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 256.0725. Based on these targets, NDSN could surge 33.29% to reach the target high and rise by 10.84% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 19.76% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $9.72861 being high and $9.53985 being low. For NDSN, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $9.54985. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.48 and the low estimate is $2.38. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $2.42.
