How is National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCMI) managing its expenses and how are they impacting profitability? A lo0k at the company’s financial scorecard for the last fiscal year shows it posted gross margin of 72.70%% and operating margin of 36.30%%. Net profit margin profit on the other hands came to 5.70%%.
The Barchart Technical Opinion rating is a 100% Sell with a Strongest short term outlook on maintaining the current direction. Longer term, the trend strength is in the Top 1%. Long term indicators fully support a continuation of the trend. The market is in highly oversold territory. Beware of a trend reversal.
Recently, National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCMI) announced consolidated results for the fiscal first quarter ended March 30, 2017.
These led National CineMedia, Inc. to book EPS of $0.42. In terms of short-term earnings outlook, EPS for the current year is expected to move 62.20%% from last year?s EPS, and the coming year’s EPS is expected to grow 8.33%%.
The long-term earnings outlook indicates EPS will grow -6.20%% over the next five years compared to 6.45%% growth for the prior five years.
For the topline, sales grew 0.60%% in the past five years.
That said, investors would do well to remember that National CineMedia, Inc. posted PEG of 3.23, while P/S and P/Free Cash Flow for the trailing 12 months are P/S 1.23 and P/Free Cash Flow 8.68, respectively.
In terms of stock movements, shares of National CineMedia, Inc. have registered 52-week high of $-45.60% and 52-week low of $2.88%. Over the last 50 days, the stock has touched a high of $-35.63% and a low of $2.88%.
As for the averages, National CineMedia, Inc. has 20-Day Simple Moving Average of $-28.77%, 50-Day Simple Moving Average of $-30.42% and 200-Day Simple Moving Average of $-37.91%.
The stock’s average volume is 548.72K while its relative volume is 5.32.
Though stock is trading at $8.58, analysts on the average predict it that it will be at $14.75 in the next 12 months. The stock’s weekly vitality is 5.73% and its monthly volatility is 2.85%. Its Average True Range on the other hands is cited at 0.47.
