NPK International Inc (NYSE:NPKI) price on Friday, April 11, rose 3.31% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $5.31.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $5.14, moving within a range at $5.07 and $5.34. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.42 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 10.21. Turning to its 52-week performance, $8.65 and $4.76 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, NPKI moved -10.76% over the past month.
NPK International Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $459.60 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-25.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that NPKI is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
NPKI’s current price about -6.71% and -13.08% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 42.36, while 7-day volatility ratio is 10.37% and 6.08% in the 30-day chart. Further, NPK International Inc (NPKI) has a beta value of 2.08, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.39.
If we refocus on NPK International Inc (NYSE:NPKI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.79 over the past 10 days and 729.57K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 86.55 million shares.
The 10.04% of NPK International Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 90.53% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 1.88 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 1.9. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in NPK International Inc (NPKI) stood at 225.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 1.53 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -30.77% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the NPKI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
