NASDAQ:NATI - National Instruments Stock Price, Forecast & News

National Instruments trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "NATI."

National Instruments declared a dividend on Wednesday, October 23rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 11th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Monday, December 2nd. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 7th. View National Instruments' Dividend History.

National Instruments Corp (NASDAQ:NATI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 29th. The technology company reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.38 by $0.01. The technology company had revenue of $340.44 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $338.95 million. National Instruments had a net margin of 11.90% and a return on equity of 14.73%. National Instruments's revenue for the quarter was down 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.45 earnings per share. View National Instruments' Earnings History.

National Instruments is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for National Instruments.

National Instruments will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

3 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for National Instruments' stock. Their forecasts range from $40.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate National Instruments' stock price to reach $45.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for National Instruments.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for National Instruments in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for National Instruments.

News articles about NATI stock have been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. National Instruments earned a news sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is very likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for National Instruments.

National Instruments saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,550,000 shares, an increase of 6.9% from the December 15th total of 1,450,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 548,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.8 days. Currently, 1.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View National Instruments' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to National Instruments include Cognex (CGNX), FLIR Systems (FLIR), Coherent (COHR), Itron (ITRI), Badger Meter (BMI), OSI Systems (OSIS), Mesa Laboratories (MLAB), MTS Systems (MTSC), FARO Technologies (FARO), Vishay Precision Group (VPG) and Daktronics (DAKT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other National Instruments investors own include BlackRock (BLK), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), IBM (IBM), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Enbridge (ENB), Pfizer (PFE), AT&T (T), Gilead Sciences (GILD), PepsiCo (PEP) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).

National Instruments' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Riverbridge Partners LLC (2.00%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.31%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.23%), Kopion Asset Management LLC (0.13%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.12%) and Roubaix Capital LLC (0.05%). Company insiders that own National Instruments stock include Alexander M Davern, Duy Loan T Le, Eric Howard Starkloff, Gerhard Paul Fettweis, James J Truchard, Jeffrey L Kodosky, John Charles Roiko and Scott Arthur Rust. View Institutional Ownership Trends for National Instruments.

NATI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SG Americas Securities LLC, Riverbridge Partners LLC, Arizona State Retirement System, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Dupont Capital Management Corp, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Eqis Capital Management Inc. and W.E. Donoghue & Co. LLC. Company insiders that have sold National Instruments company stock in the last year include Jeffrey L Kodosky and Scott Arthur Rust. View Insider Buying and Selling for National Instruments.

NATI stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Kopion Asset Management LLC, Roubaix Capital LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Sciencast Management LP, Strs Ohio and First Quadrant L P CA. View Insider Buying and Selling for National Instruments.

Shares of NATI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NATI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.56.

National Instruments has a market capitalization of $5.84 billion and generates $1.36 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $155.06 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.34 on an earnings per share basis. National Instruments employs 7,263 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About National Instruments.

The official website for National Instruments is http://www.ni.com/.

National Instruments' mailing address is 11500 NORTH MOPAC EXPRESSWAY, AUSTIN TX, 78759. The technology company can be reached via phone at 512-683-0100 or via email at [email protected]