During the last session, MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE:MDU)’s traded shares were 0.86 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.79. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $16.56, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.24% or -$0.04. The 52-week high for the MDU share is $20.39, that puts it down -23.13 from that peak though still a striking 20.17% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $13.22. The company’s market capitalization is $3.38B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.66 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.41 million shares over the past three months.
MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.00. MDU has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 6 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.
MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE:MDU) trade information
MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU) registered a -0.24% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.24% in intraday trading to $16.56, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -1.49%, and it has moved by -1.19% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -8.10%. The short interest in MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE:MDU) is 6.0 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.56 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $17.17, which implies an increase of 3.55% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $17.17 and $17.17 respectively. As a result, MDU is trading at a discount of -3.68% off the target high and -3.68% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -4.05%. While earnings are projected to return 7.21% in 2025, the next five years will return 7.61% per annum.
MDU Dividends
MDU Resources Group Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-08. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for MDU Resources Group Inc is 0.46, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.79 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 3.02%.
MDU Resources Group Inc (NYSE:MDU)’s Major holders
MDU Resources Group Inc insiders own 0.94% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 82.85%, with the float percentage being 83.63%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 519.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 20.52 million shares (or 18.1637% of all shares), a total value of $514.98 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 18.61 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 16.4747% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $467.1 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of MDU Resources Group Inc (MDU) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 12.25 shares. This amounts to just over 6.00 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $202.9 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 6.42, or about 3.14% of the stock, which is worth about $106.25 million.
