With 0.5 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.59 million shares. The 52-week range on NPWR shows that it touched its highest point at $14.28 and its lowest point at $6.57 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $18.67. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.06.
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 NPWR was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -5.58%, but this was down by -26.98% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -42.04% while six-month performance fell -11.86%. The stock lost -7.26% in the past year, while it has lost -31.26% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NPWR yields 0.11 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.05. For the next quarter, that number is -0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of -79.68% for this year and -62.61% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 75.24 million NPWR shares are outstanding with a float of 30.42 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for NPWR since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 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.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.086248 being high and -$1.20747 being low. For NPWR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.64686. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.05 and the low estimate is -$0.05. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.05.
