In the last trading session, 1.08 million shares of the Natera Inc (NASDAQ:NTRA) were traded, and its beta was 1.79. Most recently the company’s share price was $154.58, and it changed around $0.75 or 0.49% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $20.90B. NTRA currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $183.00, offering almost -18.39% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $83.13, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 46.22% since then. We note from Natera Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 1.74 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.69 million.
Natera Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.39. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 21 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 8 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 0 recommended NTRA as a Hold, whereas 12 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. Natera Inc is expected to report earnings per share of -0.66 for the current quarter.
Natera Inc (NASDAQ:NTRA) trade information
Instantly NTRA has showed a green trend with a performance of 0.49% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 155.64 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.68%. The company’s shares are currently down -2.35% year-to-date, but still up 5.67% over the last five days. On the other hand, Natera Inc (NASDAQ:NTRA) is -2.39% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 2.88 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.63 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $182, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 15.07% from its current value. Analyst projections state that NTRA is forecast to be at a low of $160 and a high of $195.
Natera Inc (NTRA) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 13.09%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 17 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 446.47M in revenue for the current quarter. 17 analysts expect Natera Inc to make 465.13M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 367.74M and 413.35M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 21.41%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 12.53%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 3.18%.
NTRA Dividends
Natera Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Feb-26.
Natera Inc (NASDAQ:NTRA)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 3.45% of Natera Inc shares, and 93.66% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 97.01%. Natera Inc stock is held by 799.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.3316% of the shares, which is about 11.27 million shares worth $1.22 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 5.5118% or 6.77 million shares worth $733.28 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Dec 31, 2024 . The former held 3.94 shares worth $608.39 million, making up 2.91% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund held roughly 3.19 shares worth around $493.79 million, which represents about 2.36% of the total shares outstanding.
