Euronav NV (NASDAQ:EURN) Receives Daily News Impact Rating of 0.08

News headlines about Euronav NV (NASDAQ:EURN) have been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Euronav NV earned a media sentiment score of 0.08 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave headlines about the shipping company an impact score of 45.8708553709393 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the near future.

Here are some of the headlines that may have effected Accern’s analysis:

• Did Crude Tanker Stock and the Index Rise in Week 29? (finance.yahoo.com)
• Analyzing Bunker Fuel Prices in Week 29 (finance.yahoo.com)
• Contrasting Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 (GNK) & Euronav NV (EURN) (americanbankingnews.com)
• Euronav NV (NASDAQ:EURN) vs. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Warrants Expiring 12/31/2021 (GNK) Financial Review (americanbankingnews.com)
• Euronav NV (EURN) Receives Average Recommendation of “Hold” from Brokerages (americanbankingnews.com)

Euronav NV (EURN) traded down 0.63% during trading on Wednesday, hitting $7.90. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 499,586 shares. Euronav NV has a one year low of $6.65 and a one year high of $9.51. The company has a 50-day moving average of $7.62 and a 200 day moving average of $7.87. The firm has a market cap of $1.25 billion and a PE ratio of 10.01.

Euronav NV (NASDAQ:EURN) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, April 26th. The shipping company reported $0.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $164.16 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $153.13 million. On average, equities analysts forecast that Euronav NV will post $1.88 earnings per share for the current year.

A number of equities analysts recently issued reports on the company. TheStreet upgraded Euronav NV from a “d+” rating to a “c-” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Stifel Nicolaus restated a “hold” rating and issued a $8.00 target price on shares of Euronav NV in a research note on Friday, July 7th. Zacks Investment Research upgraded Euronav NV from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $8.50 target price for the company in a research note on Tuesday, July 11th. BidaskClub upgraded Euronav NV from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Friday, June 30th. Finally, ValuEngine lowered Euronav NV from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, June 2nd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. Euronav NV currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $9.50.