Currently, there are 90.61M common shares owned by the public and among those 89.18M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.40% and 17.84% over the past three months. NFG shares are trading 18.98% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 53.52% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $46.35 and touched a high of $73.13 over the same period. NFG has an average intraday trading volume of 568.10K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 2.25%, 10.64%, and 19.91% respectively.
Institutional ownership of National Fuel Gas Co (NYSE: NFG) shares accounts for 76.16% of the company’s 90.61M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $6.54B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.60. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.14. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.35% over the week and 2.07% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 35.42%, and 17.08% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 13.50% over the next five years, compared to -24.87% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the NFG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. BofA Securities stated their Underperform rating for the stock in a research note on October 28, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $62. Raymond James was of a view on February 06, 2023 that the stock is Mkt Perform, while Scotiabank gave the stock Sector Perform rating on January 17, 2023, issuing a price target of $91- $85. Scotiabank on their part issued Sector Outperform rating on July 25, 2022.
