MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE: MDU) on Tuesday, soared 2.20% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $16.40. Within the past 52 weeks, MDU’s price has moved between $13.22 and $20.39.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -15.48% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 5.66%. With a float of $197.82 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $203.93 million.
The firm has a total of 2052 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 24.55%, operating margin of 6.9%, and the pretax margin is 5.16%.
MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Conglomerates industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of MDU Resources Group Inc is 3.19%, while institutional ownership is 79.75%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 10 ’25, was worth 499,200. In this transaction Director of this company bought 30,000 shares at a rate of $16.64, taking the stock ownership to the 180,166 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 07 ’24, when Company’s President-WBI Holdings bought 36,291 for $25.46, making the entire transaction worth $923,970. This insider now owns 41,934 shares in total.
MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.66% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.48% during the next five years compared to -4.05% drop over the previous five years of trading.
MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE: MDU) Trading Performance Indicators
MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.92 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.89.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.37, a number that is poised to hit 0.39 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.02 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [MDU Resources Group Inc, MDU], we can find that recorded value of 1.02 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.95 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 80.30%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.50.
During the past 100 days, MDU Resources Group Inc’s (MDU) raw stochastic average was set at 32.13%, which indicates a significant decrease from 85.15% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 34.00% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 25.28% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $16.72, while its 200-day Moving Average is $21.34. Now, the first resistance to watch is $16.88. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $17.00. The third major resistance level sits at $17.20. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $16.56, it is likely to go to the next support level at $16.36. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $16.24.
MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE: MDU) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 3.42 billion based on 204,331K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,758 M and income totals 281,110 K. The company made 1,051 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 64,620 K in sales during its previous quarter.
