National Cinemedia Inc (NASDAQ:NCMI) price on Thursday, March 28, rose 1.78% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $5.15.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $5.06. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 0.86. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.49 and $1.12 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, NCMI moved 27.16% over the past month.
National Cinemedia Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $499.65 million. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be -$0.07, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to $0.04 and about $0.12 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 103.40% for 2024 and 200.00% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $34.67 million for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $34.4 million and $35 million respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -0.70% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2024 to grow to $243.96 million, representing a 47.70% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that NCMI is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
NCMI’s current price about 14.46% and 21.36% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 62.95, while 7-day volatility ratio is 6.53% and 6.20% in the 30-day chart. Further, National Cinemedia Inc (NCMI) has a beta value of 1.90, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.31.
If we refocus on National Cinemedia Inc (NASDAQ:NCMI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.97 million over the past 10 days and 581.87K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 96.84 million shares.
The 33.93% of National Cinemedia Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 42.39% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.39 million on Mar 15, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 12.03. The data shows that as of Mar 15, 2024 short interest in National Cinemedia Inc (NCMI) stood at 3.50% of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.93 million registered in Feb 15, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock 24.40% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the NCMI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
