Novagold Resources Inc. (AMEX:NG) price is hovering higher on Wednesday, March 27, jumping 1.48% above its previous close.
A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $2.71. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 0.82. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $6.68 and 52-week low of $2.22. The stock added 16.03% on its value in the past month.
Novagold Resources Inc., which has a market valuation of $919.52 million, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Apr 03, 2024. Analysts tracking NG have forecast the quarterly EPS to shrink by -0.02 per share this quarter, while the same analysts predict the annual EPS to hit -$0.08 for the year 2024 and up to -$0.08 for 2025.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give NG a short term outlook of 50% Sell on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Sell.
The overview shows that NG’s price is at present 6.32% off the SMA20 and 3.15% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 55.33, with weekly volatility standing at 6.34%. The indicator jumps to 5.59% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Novagold Resources Inc. (AMEX:NG)’s beta value is holding at 1.04, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 0.15.
An analysis of the Novagold Resources Inc. (AMEX:NG) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 2.42 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 2.11 million.
Current records show that the company has 334.25M in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 31.44% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 52.88%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Feb 29, 2024, stood at 10.07 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 4.28. From this we can glean that short interest is 3.01% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in February rose slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 9.26 million. But the -26.47% downside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
