News articles about NCI (NASDAQ:NCIT) have been trending somewhat positive on Friday, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. NCI earned a media sentiment score of 0.22 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned press coverage about the information technology services provider an impact score of 45.0089246764139 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the next several days.
Shares of NCI (NASDAQ NCIT) traded up 0.25% during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $20.00. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 79,351 shares. The company’s 50-day moving average is $20.07 and its 200 day moving average is $16.90. NCI has a 12 month low of $10.98 and a 12 month high of $21.40. The firm has a market cap of $272.32 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.51 and a beta of 1.01.
A number of brokerages have weighed in on NCIT. Cowen and Company reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $24.00 price target on shares of NCI in a report on Monday, July 3rd. SunTrust Banks, Inc. downgraded NCI from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and decreased their price target for the stock from $24.00 to $20.00 in a report on Monday, July 3rd. Noble Financial reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of NCI in a report on Wednesday, June 14th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded NCI from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, August 15th. Finally, ValuEngine upgraded NCI from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, June 2nd. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $18.33.
About NCI
NCI, Inc is a provider of enterprise services and solutions to defense, intelligence, healthcare and civilian government agencies. The Company provides information technology (IT), and professional services and solutions by leveraging its core service offerings, which include cloud computing and IT infrastructure optimization; cybersecurity and information assurance; engineering and logistics support; enterprise information management and advanced analytics; health IT and medical support; IT service management; modeling, simulation, and training, and agile development and integration.
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