Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NYSE:NAT) saw an upside of 0.50% to close Tuesday at $4.00 after adding $0.02 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 2,232,780 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $4.05 in the past week and touched a new high 4 times within the past 5 days. An average of 3,014,640 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 2,739,194.
NAT’s 1-month performance is -2.44% or -$0.10 on its low of $3.69 reached on 09/13/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $2.47 and high of $4.65, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 03/08/23. YTD, NAT has achieved 30.72% or $0.94 and has reached a new high 20 times. However, the current price is down -13.98% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
NAT stock has a beta of 0.16. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.11 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.51, with the price to cash flow ratio at 6.36.
Nordic American Tankers Ltd’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.80, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.99. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.29, while the total debt to equity was 0.50.. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 41.10%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 51.29% while for the period ending June 29, Nordic American Tankers Ltd’s operating margin was 36.03%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $105.39 million against revenue of $339.34 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 1234.64% to $15.1 million, while revenue of $0.0 was 100.0% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected NAT to announce $0.13 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.13, representing a 0.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $34.15 million. NAT stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 330.49 million, with total debt at $278.73 million.
Let’s look briefly at Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NAT) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 26 September was 58.45% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 24.43%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $3.93, reflecting a +1.78% or $0.07 change from its current price. NAT is currently trading +0.76% above its 20-day SMA, +19.40% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +6.95% and SMA200 by+30.72%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 81.08% and 69.57% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.13. The RSI (14) points at 53.60%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 86.11% with the period’s ATR at 0.13. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at 0.08 and 0.11 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NYSE: NAT), Jefferies upgraded it to a Buy rating. They previously had a Hold rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for NAT stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Buy. Currently, 0 brokerage advisors rate NAT as a “sell,”, while 1 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 5 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is NAT’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $4.00 and a high of $6.00, with their median price target at $4.80. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NAT) stock is $5.02.
