A new trading day began on Tuesday, with MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE: MDU) stock price up 1.18% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $16.98. MDU’s price has ranged from $13.22 to $20.39 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company slipped by -15.48% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 6.50%. With a float of $197.82 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $203.93 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 2052 employees. 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 Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Conglomerates Industry. The insider ownership of MDU Resources Group Inc is 3.19%, while institutional ownership is 79.86%. 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) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.11 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.50% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.13% 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
Here are MDU Resources Group Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.92. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.91.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.37, a number that is poised to hit 0.36 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.03 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU)
MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE: MDU) saw its 5-day average volume 0.99 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.89 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 84.91%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.45.
During the past 100 days, MDU Resources Group Inc’s (MDU) raw stochastic average was set at 41.15%, which indicates a significant decrease from 97.91% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 24.05% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.49% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $16.74, while its 200-day Moving Average is $21.15. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $17.31 in the near term. At $17.43, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $17.64. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $16.97, it is likely to go to the next support level at $16.76. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $16.64.
MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE: MDU) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 3.51 billion, the company has a total of 204,331K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 1,758 M while annual income is 281,110 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 1,051 M while its latest quarter income was 64,620 K.
