Noble Corporation Plc [NYSE: NE] loss -5.72% or -2.27 points to close at $37.43 with a heavy trading volume of 3835050 shares. The company report on March 15, 2023 that Safe Bulkers Announces Appointments to the Board of Directors.
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Ms. Holth previously served as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Ocean Industries for DNB Bank ASA (“DNB”), Norway’s largest financial services group and a global leading financial institution within the Ocean Industries. Ms. Holth has significant experience in capital markets and funding, and has held numerous management positions within DNB over the years, including serving as Global Head of Shipping, Offshore & Logistics for four years, and General Manager & Head of DNB Americas for six years. Ms. Holth currently serves on several boards, including Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE), GasLog Partners LP (NYSE: GLOP), Maersk Tankers, and HitecVision AS. Ms. Holth holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in international finance from BI Norwegian Business School.
It opened the trading session at $37.92, the shares rose to $37.925 and dropped to $36.64, the range by which the price of stock traded the whole day. The daily chart for NE points out that the company has recorded 10.71% gains over the past six months. However, it is still -65.33% lower than its most recent low trading price.
If we look at the average trading volume of 1.91M shares, NE reached to a volume of 3835050 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here is what top equities market gurus are saying about Noble Corporation Plc [NE]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for NE shares is $52.71 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on NE stock is a recommendation set at 1.60. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
The Benchmark Company have made an estimate for Noble Corporation Plc shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on January 19, 2023. The new note on the price target was released on June 01, 2022, representing the official price target for Noble Corporation Plc stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $45, while Evercore ISI analysts kept a Outperform rating on NE stock.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Noble Corporation Plc is set at 1.97, with the Price to Sales ratio for NE stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 3.55. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 1.70, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 3.15.
Trading performance analysis for NE stock
Noble Corporation Plc [NE] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -12.07. With this latest performance, NE shares dropped by -13.16% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 10.71% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 24.52% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for NE stock in for the last two-week period is set at 37.07, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 31.09, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 41.21 for Noble Corporation Plc [NE]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 40.40, while it was recorded at 39.35 for the last single week of trading, and 34.48 for the last 200 days.
Noble Corporation Plc [NE]: A deeper dive into fundamental analysis
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Noble Corporation Plc [NE] shares currently have an operating margin of +15.79 and a Gross Margin at +21.60. Noble Corporation Plc’s Net Margin is presently recorded at +11.95.
Noble Corporation Plc’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 2.80 and a Current Ratio set at 2.80.
An analysis of insider ownership at Noble Corporation Plc [NE]
There are presently around $2,810 million, or 49.40% of NE stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of NE stocks are: VANGUARD GROUP INC with ownership of 7,826,179, which is approximately 23725.435% of the company’s market cap and around 0.10% of the total institutional ownership; BLACKROCK INC., holding 6,641,225 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $248.58 million in NE stocks shares; and ALLIANZ ASSET MANAGEMENT GMBH, currently with $235.11 million in NE stock with ownership of nearly -64.167% of the company’s market capitalization.
Positions in Noble Corporation Plc stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of Monday and at the time of the Monday reporting period, where 139 institutional holders increased their position in Noble Corporation Plc [NYSE:NE] by around 33,462,858 shares. Additionally, 59 investors decreased positions by around 23,631,943 shares, while 20 investors held positions by with 17,973,192 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 75,067,993 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. NE stock had 82 new institutional investments in for a total of 15,672,655 shares, while 19 institutional investors sold positions of 2,684,764 shares during the same period.