NVE (NASDAQ:NVEC) Share Price Passes Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average – What’s Next?

NVE Corporation (NASDAQ:NVEC)’s stock price passed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Friday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of $66.11 and traded as high as $67.97. NVE shares last traded at $66.08, with a volume of 25,757 shares trading hands.

Key NVE News

Here are the key news stories impacting NVE this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Recent profitability: NVE reported $0.70 EPS and $6.22M revenue in its most recent quarter, with a very high net margin (~54.6%) and ROE (~23.5%), which supports the company’s earnings quality and valuation relative to peers.
• Neutral Sentiment: No direct news in the provided feed: the Quiver/13F items you supplied show institutional moves across many large names but do not identify notable new positions or heavy selling in NVEC — so today’s decline appears not driven by fresh company-specific filings or the items in those articles.
• Neutral Sentiment: Technicals and liquidity: NVEC is trading around its 50-day (~$66.86) and 200-day (~$66.09) moving averages, a zone where short-term volatility and churning are common. Today’s volume is below the stock’s average, suggesting lower conviction behind the move.
• Negative Sentiment: Small revenue base and cyclicality risk: with modest quarterly revenue, NVE’s results and outlook can be more volatile and sensitive to semiconductor demand cycles and single-customer / product shifts — a common reason small-cap semiconductors can pull back on limited news.
• Negative Sentiment: Market/sector pressure and profit-taking: absent fresh positive company news, moves in the broader semiconductor sector or rotation out of small caps can drive declines. NVEC’s beta (~1.28) makes it somewhat more sensitive to sector swings and market risk-off behavior.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of NVE in a research report on Monday, December 29th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Hold rating, Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold”.

NVE Stock Down 0.8%

The company has a market cap of $319.63 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.63 and a beta of 1.28. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $66.82 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $66.12.

NVE (NASDAQ:NVEC) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January 21st. The semiconductor company reported $0.70 EPS for the quarter. NVE had a net margin of 54.59% and a return on equity of 23.47%. The company had revenue of $6.22 million for the quarter.

NVE Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 27th. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 2nd will be issued a $1.00 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, February 2nd. This represents a $4.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 6.1%. NVE’s dividend payout ratio is 136.99%.

Insider Activity

In related news, CEO Daniel A. Baker sold 1,155 shares of NVE stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $74.04, for a total transaction of $85,516.20. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 60,031 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,444,695.24. This trade represents a 1.89% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Insiders own 1.90% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of NVE

Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. McMillan Office Inc. acquired a new position in shares of NVE in the fourth quarter valued at $30,000. Cornerstone Planning Group LLC acquired a new position in shares of NVE in the 3rd quarter valued at $36,000. SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in shares of NVE during the 3rd quarter worth about $143,000. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. boosted its position in shares of NVE by 5.7% during the 1st quarter. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. now owns 2,873 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $183,000 after acquiring an additional 156 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Handelsbanken Fonder AB acquired a new stake in shares of NVE during the 2nd quarter valued at about $211,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 65.95% of the company’s stock.

NVE Company Profile

NVE Corporation (NASDAQ:NVEC) is a technology company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of spintronic products. The company’s core expertise lies in magnetoresistive sensing and magnetic-field-based digital isolation, leveraging patented spin-valve and tunneling magnetoresistance technologies to deliver high-performance, low-power solutions.

NVE’s product portfolio includes magnetic sensors for current, position, and angle sensing applications, as well as micro-isolators and digital isolators that provide galvanic isolation in industrial, automotive, medical, instrumentation, and consumer electronics systems.