New Relic Inc. (NEWR) Stock: Should Investors Follow These Insider Trades?

New Relic Inc. (NYSE:NEWR) remained unchanged to close Monday at $84.39 after subtracting $0.0 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 5,024,140 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $84.69 in the past week and touched a new high 4 times within the past 5 days. An average of 2,316,525 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,448,476.

NEWR’s 1-month performance is 26.29% or $17.57 on its low of $66.08 reached on 07/10/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $50.24 and high of $86.00, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 05/17/23. YTD, NEWR has achieved 49.50% or $27.94 and has reached a new high 12 times. However, the current price is down -1.87% from the 52-week high price.

Insider Transactions

NEWR stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Jul 06.Cirne Lewis (Executive Chairman) most recently sold 15,000 shares at $65.54 per share on Jul 06. This transaction cost the insider $983,094. Chief Revenue Officer, Dodds Mark, sold 9,008 shares at a price of $67.95 on Jun 16. Then, on Jun 06, Executive Chairman Cirne Lewis sold 15,000 shares at a price of $69.42 per share. This transaction amounted to $1,041,300.

Valuation Metrics

NEWR stock has a beta of 0.86. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 6.21 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 16.64, with the price to cash flow ratio at 85.72.

New Relic Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.40, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.40. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 75.20%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $679.24 million against revenue of $925.63 million.

Earnings Surprise

For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, New Relic Inc.’s cash and short-term investments amounted to $216.29 million against total debt of $44.84 million. Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -34.22% to -$37.43 million, while revenue of -$57.23 million was -52.9% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected NEWR to announce $0.31 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.43, representing a 38.70% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than -$20.87 million. NEWR stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 538.4 million, with total debt at $44.84 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $70.22 million.

Let’s look briefly at New Relic Inc. (NEWR) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 07 August was 82.90% to suggest the stock is trending Overbought, with historical volatility in this time period at 64.02%.

The stock’s 5-day moving average is $84.15, reflecting a +0.49% or $0.41 change from its current price. NEWR is currently trading +23.00% above its 20-day SMA, +18.11% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +5.82% and SMA200 by+47.82%.

Stochastic %K and %D was 98.17% and 97.48% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.80. The RSI (14) points at 77.19%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 97.95% with the period’s ATR at 1.93. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 3.54 and 6.65 on the 14-day charts.

Analyst Ratings

In the most recent analyst report for New Relic Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), RBC Capital Mkts upgraded it to an Outperform rating. They previously had a Sector perform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for NEWR stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate NEWR as a “sell,”, while 15 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 2 have offered a “buy” rating.

What is NEWR’s price target for the next 12 months?

Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $75.00 and a high of $95.00, with their median price target at $87.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for New Relic Inc. (NEWR) stock is $87.09.

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