Currently, there are 538.58M common shares owned by the public and among those 528.49M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -51.85% and -2.80% over the past three months. NAK shares are trading 151.21% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 78.85% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $0.30 and touched a high of $2.40 over the same period. NAK has an average intraday trading volume of 10.88 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -37.98%, -22.50%, and 25.79% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (AMEX: NAK) shares accounts for 12.54% of the company’s 538.58M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $560.28M and a beta (3y monthly) value of -0.73. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.09. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 38.95% over the week and 17.42% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (NAK) will achieve an EPS of 0.0 for the current quarter, 0.0 for the next quarter and -0.02 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.0 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.0. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -0.01 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -6.91%, and 46.77% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 24.81% over the next five years, compared to 19.53% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the NAK, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. H.C. Wainwright stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on October 19, 2017, with the firm’s price target at $2.50. Gabelli & Co coverage for the Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (NAK) stock in a research note released on December 21, 2016 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $3. BMO Capital Markets on their part issued Outperform rating on January 30, 2008.
