How to buy Natural Resource Partners stock (NRP)

Natural Resource Partners is a thermal coal business based in the US. Natural Resource Partners shares (NRP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $104.33 – an increase of 0.21% over the previous week.

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Natural Resource Partners stock price (NYSE: NRP)

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Natural Resource Partners shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-15.

Latest market close	$104.33
52-week range	$79.38 - $113.04
50-day moving average more info button	$98.53
200-day moving average more info button	$92.27
Wall St. target price	$96.00
PE ratio more info button	8.3819
Dividend yield more info button	$3 (2.88%)
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$12.41

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Natural Resource Partners price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $104.33 from 2024-12-20

1 week (2024-12-16)	0.21%
1 month (2024-11-22)	-1.56%
3 months (2024-09-23)	9.37%
6 months (2024-06-21)	13.32%

1 year (2023-12-22)	16.17%
2 years (2022-12-23)	143.92%
3 years (2021-12-23)	303.30%
5 years (2019-12-23)	671.32%

Is Natural Resource Partners stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Natural Resource Partners stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Natural Resource Partners's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Natural Resource Partners's P/E ratio

Natural Resource Partners's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 8x. In other words, Natural Resource Partners shares trade at around 8x 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.

Natural Resource Partners's EBITDA

Natural Resource Partners's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $202.3 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Natural Resource Partners's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Natural Resource Partners financials

Revenue TTM	$256.7 million
Operating margin TTM	66.41%
Gross profit TTM	$293.2 million
Return on assets TTM	14.25%
Return on equity TTM	38.56%
Profit margin	78.84%
Book value	$38.95
Market Capitalization more info button	$1.4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Natural Resource Partners share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 37.74% of net profits

Recently Natural Resource Partners 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), Natural Resource Partners shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Natural Resource Partners's case, that would currently equate to about $3 per share.

While Natural Resource Partners's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Natural Resource Partners may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Natural Resource Partners's most recent dividend payout was on 25 November 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 18 November 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Natural Resource Partners's shares ever split?

Natural Resource Partners's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 17 February 2016 . So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Natural Resource Partners shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Natural Resource Partners shares which in turn could have impacted Natural Resource Partners's share price.

Natural Resource Partners share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Natural Resource Partners's shares have ranged in value from as little as $79.3779 up to $113.0426. 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 Natural Resource Partners's is 0.471. This would suggest that Natural Resource Partners's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Natural Resource Partners overview

Natural Resource Partners L. P. , together with its subsidiaries, owns, manages, and leases a portfolio of mineral properties in the United States. It operates in two segments, Mineral Rights and Soda Ash. The company owns interests in coal, soda ash, trona, and other natural resources. Its coal reserves are primarily located in the Appalachia Basin, the Illinois Basin, and the Northern Powder River Basin in the United States; industrial minerals and aggregates properties located in the United States; and oil and gas properties located in Louisiana. The company leases a portion of its reserves in exchange for royalty payments; and owns and leases transportation and processing infrastructure related to coal properties.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Natural Resource Partners is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 23.231% of Natural Resource Partners shares are held by insiders and 30.938% by institutions. When does the fiscal year end for Natural Resource Partners?
Natural Resource Partners's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Natural Resource Partners based?
Natural Resource Partners's address is: 1415 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX, United States, 77002 What is Natural Resource Partners's ISIN number?
Natural Resource Partners's international securities identification number is: US63900P6088 What is Natural Resource Partners's CUSIP number?
Natural Resource Partners's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 63900P509