Currently, there are 90.40M common shares owned by the public and among those 89.07M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 1.48% and 12.41% over the past three months. NFG shares are trading 35.83% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 46.08% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $53.03 and touched a high of $83.35 over the same period. NFG has an average intraday trading volume of 684.11K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 2.16%, 4.65%, and 22.09% respectively.
Institutional ownership of National Fuel Gas Co (NYSE: NFG) shares accounts for 78.12% of the company’s 90.40M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $7.45B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.63. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 187.79, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.44. The company has a PEG of 9.27 and a Quick Ratio of 0.42 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.06. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.39% over the week and 1.53% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 38.72%, and 21.75% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 20.25% 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.
