NexGen Energy Ltd. (NYSE:NXE) saw an upside of 5.97% to close Monday at $5.15 after adding $0.29 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 3,225,760 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $5.20 in the past week and touched a new high 2 times within the past 5 days. An average of 2,541,155 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,158,410.
NXE’s 1-month performance is 10.99% or $0.51 on its low of $4.54 reached on 08/02/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $3.40 and high of $5.11, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 08/21/23. YTD, NXE has achieved 16.25% or $0.72 and has reached a new high 8 times. However, the current price is up 0.78% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
NXE stock has a beta of 1.92. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 5.66.
NexGen Energy Ltd.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 6.80, with the current ratio over the same period at 6.80. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.18, while the total debt to equity was 0.18. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.83 million against revenue of $45.98 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Analysts expected NXE to announce -$0.01 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted -$0.03, representing a -200.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than -$11.12 million. NXE stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 74.07 million, with total debt at $81.07 million.
Let’s look briefly at NexGen Energy Ltd. (NXE) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 21 August was 66.43% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 53.94%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $4.85, reflecting a +2.79% or $0.14 change from its current price. NXE is currently trading +11.23% above its 20-day SMA, +37.70% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +16.78% and SMA200 by+23.21%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 62.64% and 48.31% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.23. The RSI (14) points at 62.77%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 92.42% with the period’s ATR at 0.21. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.06 and 0.07 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for NexGen Energy Ltd. (NYSE: NXE), RBC Capital Mkts upgraded it to an Outperform rating. They previously had a Sector perform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for NXE stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate NXE as a “sell,”, while 0 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 2 rates the stock as overweight while 9 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is NXE’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $5.35 and a high of $8.72, with their median price target at $7.37. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for NexGen Energy Ltd. (NXE) stock is $7.30.
