National Presto Industries is an aerospace & defense business based in the US. National Presto Industries shares (NPK) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $81.27 – a decrease of 4.57% over the previous week. National Presto Industries employs 1,126 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $388.2 million.
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| Latest market close | $81.27 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $68.88 - $102.88 |
| 50-day moving average | $90.08 |
| 200-day moving average | $83.69 |
| Wall St. target price | $18.93 |
| PE ratio | 14.5052 |
| Dividend yield | $1 (1.19%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $5.82 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $81.46 from 2025-05-06
| 1 week (2025-04-30) | -3.43% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-08) | -1.24% |
| 3 months (2025-02-07) | -16.91% |
| 6 months (2024-11-08) | 6.64% |
| 1 year (2024-05-08) | -5.01% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 21.45% |
| 3 years (2022-05-06) | 15.85% |
| 5 years (2020-05-07) | 15.74% |
Valuing National Presto Industries stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of National Presto Industries's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
National Presto Industries's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 15x. In other words, National Presto Industries shares trade at around 15x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
National Presto Industries's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $50.3 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a National Presto Industries's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $388.2 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 17.34% |
| Gross profit TTM | $78.6 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 6.32% |
| Return on equity TTM | 11.46% |
| Profit margin | 10.68% |
| Book value | $51.74 |
| Market Capitalization | $603.1 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 17.16% of net profits
Recently National Presto Industries has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), National Presto Industries shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In National Presto Industries's case, that would currently equate to about $1 per share.
While National Presto Industries's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that National Presto Industries is investing more in its future growth.
National Presto Industries's most recent dividend payout was on 16 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 3 March 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
National Presto Industries's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 30 June 1983 . So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your National Presto Industries shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for National Presto Industries shares which in turn could have impacted National Presto Industries's share price.
Over the last 12 months, National Presto Industries's shares have ranged in value from as little as $68.8793 up to $102.8813. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while National Presto Industries's is 0.569. This would suggest that National Presto Industries's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
National Presto Industries, Inc. provides housewares and small appliance, defense, and safety products in North America. The company's Housewares/Small Appliance segment designs, markets, and distributes housewares and small electrical appliances, including pressure cookers and canners; kitchen electrics, and comfort appliances; heat control line of skillets, griddles, woks, and multi-purpose cookers; slow cookers; deep fryers; air fryers; waffle makers; pizza ovens; slicer/shredders; electric heaters; corn poppers; dehydrators; vacuum sealers; microwave bacon cookers; coffeemakers and coffeemaker accessories; electric knife sharpeners; and timers under the Presto Control Master brand. This segment sells its products directly to retailers, as well as through independent distributors. Its Defense segment manufactures and sells 40mm ammunition, precision mechanical and electro-mechanical products, medium caliber cartridge cases, and metal parts; and detonators, booster pellets, release cartridges, lead azide, other military energetic devices and materials, and assemblies. This segment primarily serves the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and DOD prime contractors. The company's Safety segment patented machine learning, digital sensors, and cloud-based technology to monitor freezers and refrigerators that detects and alerts users to potential safety issues around pharmaceuticals and food.
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