Navigator Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NVGS) shares, rose in value on Friday, July 11, with the stock price up by 1.50% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $15.52.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $15.29, falling within a range of $15.25 and $15.58. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.797 whereas the PE ratio was 12.21 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $17.52, and the low was $10.55. On the whole, NVGS has fluctuated by 9.92% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Navigator Holdings Ltd currently standing at about $1.07 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-14. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.20, with its dividend yield at 1.29%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 513.33M, with a low estimate of 122.45M and a high estimate of 131M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 126.73M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that NVGS’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.86, with the price of NVGS currently trading nearly 4.97% and 9.42% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 65.20, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.57% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.84%. Furthermore, Navigator Holdings Ltd (NVGS)’s beta value is 0.74.
A comparison of Navigator Holdings Ltd (NVGS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. NVGS showed an intraday change of 1.50% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 1.11%%.
Data on historical trading for Navigator Holdings Ltd (NYSE:NVGS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.1 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 475.57K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 69.26 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 53.44% of Navigator Holdings Ltd’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 28.58% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 0.46 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 1.2. According to the data, the short interest in Navigator Holdings Ltd (NVGS) stood at 143.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 0.26 million. The stock has fallen by -8.38% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the NVGS stock heading into the next quarter.
