A Review of Intuitive Machines Inc (NASDAQ: LUNR)’s Performance and Growth Prospects

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In the last trading session, 10.8 million Intuitive Machines Inc (NASDAQ:LUNR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.91. With the company’s per share price at $16.91 changed hands at -$0.96 or -5.37% during last session, the market valuation stood at $2.53B. LUNR’s last price was a discount, traded about -31.99% off its 52-week high of $22.32. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.30, which suggests the last value was 86.4% up since then. When we look at Intuitive Machines Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 17.55 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 17.04 million.

Analysts gave the Intuitive Machines Inc (LUNR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.17. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended LUNR as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Intuitive Machines Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.06.

Intuitive Machines Inc (NASDAQ:LUNR) trade information

Instantly LUNR was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -22.75%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -6.88%, with the 5-day performance at -22.75% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Intuitive Machines Inc (NASDAQ:LUNR) is 44.65% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 17.39 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.72 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 12.25, meaning bulls need a downside of -38.04% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, LUNR’s forecast low is 12 with 12.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 26.08% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 29.04% for it to hit the projected low.

Intuitive Machines Inc (LUNR) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Intuitive Machines Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 303.58% over the past 6 months, a -205.41% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 13.20%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 186.37% up from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 5 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 54.75M. 4 analysts are of the opinion that Intuitive Machines Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 78.94M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 30.56M and 73.07M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 79.15%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 8.03%.

The 2025 estimates are for Intuitive Machines Inc earnings to decrease by -192.28%.

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Intuitive Machines Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February.

Intuitive Machines Inc (NASDAQ:LUNR)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 10.79% of Intuitive Machines Inc shares while 34.91% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 39.14%. There are 34.91% institutions holding the Intuitive Machines Inc stock share, with CPMG INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 2.2525% of the shares, roughly 1.24 million LUNR shares worth $4.1 million.

GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 1.2908% or 0.71 million shares worth $2.35 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund . With 1.95 shares estimated at $33.02 million under it, the former controlled 2.42% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund held about 1.04% of the shares, roughly 838.47 shares worth around $14.18 million.