With 2.17 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.59 million shares. The 52-week range on NPKI shows that it touched its highest point at $8.65 and its lowest point at $5.44 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $11.00. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.47.
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 NPKI was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -12.91%, but this was down by -19.27% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -33.85% while six-month performance fell -32.81%. The stock lost -17.09% in the past year, while it has lost -27.90% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NPKI yields 0.52 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.44. For the next quarter, that number is 0.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of 45.65% for this year and 31.34% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 86.55 million NPKI shares are outstanding with a float of 77.87 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
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. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.1 and the low estimate is $0.08. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.09.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded NPKI stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
