Nexstar Media Group Inc (NASDAQ:NXST) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 20, with the stock price up by 3.12% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $171.79.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $166.59, falling within a range of $167.715 and $172.26. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.033 whereas the PE ratio was 8.45 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $191.86, and the low was $141.66. On the whole, NXST has fluctuated by -2.25% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Nexstar Media Group Inc currently standing at about $5.18 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-08. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 7.10, with its dividend yield at 4.13%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that NXST’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of NXST currently trading nearly 1.37% and 5.52% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 55.58, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.14% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.69%. Furthermore, Nexstar Media Group Inc (NXST)’s beta value is 1.03, and its average true range (ATR) is 4.46.
A comparison of Nexstar Media Group Inc (NXST) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. NXST showed an intraday change of 3.12% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 13.09%%.
Data on historical trading for Nexstar Media Group Inc (NASDAQ:NXST) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.26 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 479.84K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 30.36 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 6.73% of Nexstar Media Group Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 97.51% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.02 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 3.99. According to the data, the short interest in Nexstar Media Group Inc (NXST) stood at 935.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 2.07 million. The stock has risen by 8.75% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the NXST stock heading into the next quarter.
