Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (NYSE:HII) shares, rose in value on Friday, February 14, with price up by 0.28% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $161.27.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $160.82, falling within a range of $159.41 and $163.385. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.561 whereas the PE ratio was 11.56 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $299.50, and the low was $158.88. On the whole, HII has fluctuated by -18.84% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc currently standing at about $6.31 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 5.25, with its dividend yield at 3.26%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 11.95B, with a low estimate of 2.73B and a high estimate of 2.92B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 2.81B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HII’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.11, with the price of HII currently trading nearly -13.88% and -15.08% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 27.58, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.73% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.00%. Furthermore, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (HII)’s beta value is 0.46, and its average true range (ATR) is 6.46.
A comparison of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (HII) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HII showed an intraday change of 0.28% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -41.38%%.
Data on historical trading for Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (NYSE:HII) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.89 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 611.55K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 39.13 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.79% of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 86.76% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.14 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.56. According to the data, the short interest in Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (HII) stood at 335.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 1.17 million. The stock has fallen by -14.66% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HII stock heading into the next quarter.
