News stories about NL Industries (NYSE:NL) have trended positive on Thursday, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. NL Industries earned a news impact score of 0.30 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news headlines about the basic materials company an impact score of 46.048429913037 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the next few days.
Shares of NL Industries (NYSE:NL) traded down 1.36% during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $7.25. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 56,888 shares. NL Industries has a one year low of $2.85 and a one year high of $10.90. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $7.45 and its 200 day moving average price is $7.30. The firm has a market cap of $353.11 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.63 and a beta of 2.67.
NL Industries (NYSE:NL) last issued its earnings results on Monday, May 8th. The basic materials company reported $0.17 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.17. The business had revenue of $29.90 million for the quarter. NL Industries had a return on equity of 13.97% and a net margin of 23.55%. Analysts predict that NL Industries will post $0.80 earnings per share for the current year.
A number of research firms have recently weighed in on NL. TheStreet raised NL Industries from a “c” rating to a “b-” rating in a research note on Friday, April 7th. Barclays PLC increased their price target on NL Industries from $3.00 to $6.00 and gave the company an “underweight” rating in a research note on Friday, April 7th.
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About NL Industries
NL Industries, Inc is a holding company. The Company operates in the component products industry through its subsidiary, CompX International Inc (CompX). The Company operates in the chemicals industry through its non-controlling interest in Kronos Worldwide, Inc (Kronos). The Company, through Compx, manufactures engineered components that are sold to a range of industries, including recreational transportation (including boats), postal, office and institutional furniture, cabinetry, tool storage, healthcare, gas stations and vending equipment.
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