Nike, Inc (NKE) is expecting -10.38% growth in the next quarter: What can investors do to maximize their returns?

On Monday, Nike, Inc (NYSE: NKE) was -2.31% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $76.66. A 52-week range for NKE has been $70.75 – $123.39.

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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.90% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -30.40%. With a float of $1.17 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.21 billion.

The firm has a total of 79400 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 44.84%, operating margin of 11.91%, and the pretax margin is 12.71%.

Nike, Inc (NKE) Insider Activity

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Nike, Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Nike, Inc is 21.37%, while institutional ownership is 65.03%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 14 ’24, was worth 3,463,362. In this transaction EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN of this company sold 45,190 shares at a rate of $76.64, taking the stock ownership to the 967,659 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 14 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 45,190 for $76.64, making the entire transaction worth $3,463,362.

Nike, Inc (NKE) Earnings and Forecasts

Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 8/31/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 1.03 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 0.85) by 0.18. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.64 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -30.40% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.50% during the next five years compared to 8.40% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Nike, Inc (NYSE: NKE) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Nike, Inc (NKE) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.58. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.26. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.66.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.49, a number that is poised to hit 0.65 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.19 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Nike, Inc (NKE)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Nike, Inc, NKE], we can find that recorded value of 9.81 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 11.49 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 29.54%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.63.

During the past 100 days, Nike, Inc’s (NKE) raw stochastic average was set at 20.83%, which indicates a significant increase from 14.88% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 23.64% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 45.11% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $80.79, while its 200-day Moving Average is $87.54. Now, the first resistance to watch is $75.98. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $77.06. The third major resistance level sits at $77.93. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $74.03, it is likely to go to the next support level at $73.16. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $72.08.

Nike, Inc (NYSE: NKE) Key Stats

There are 1,499,359K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 112.92 billion. As of now, sales total 51,362 M while income totals 5,700 M. Its latest quarter income was 11,589 M while its last quarter net income were 1,051 M.