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Nathan's Famous, Inc is a restaurants business based in the US. Nathans Famous shares (NATH) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Nathans Famous employs 120 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$82.6 million.

How to buy shares in Nathans Famous

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Nathans Famous. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: NATH. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Nathans Famous reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$64.5, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Nathans Famous, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Nathans Famous. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Nathans Famous's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Nathans Famous's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$64.5, which is 0.92% down on its pre-crash value of USD$65.1 and 65.34% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$39.01.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Nathans Famous shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$739.39 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$989.43.

Nathans Famous share price

Use our graph to track the performance of NATH stocks over time.

Nathans Famous shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-30.

Latest market close	USD$64.5
52-week range	USD$42.4858 - USD$74.1765
50-day moving average	USD$55.2559
200-day moving average	USD$54.1747
Wall St. target price	N/A
PE ratio	19.62
Dividend yield	USD$1.4 (2.33%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$2.895

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Nathans Famous price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $64.5 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-20)	8.39%
1 month (2020-10-30)	27.07%
3 months (2020-08-28)	22.62%
6 months (2020-05-29)	15.12%

1 year (2019-11-29)	-13.48%
2 years (2018-11-29)	-11.39%
3 years (2017-11-29)	-32.18%
5 years (2015-11-27)	47.23%

Is Nathans Famous under- or over-valued?

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

Nathans Famous's P/E ratio

Nathans Famous's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 20x. In other words, Nathans Famous shares trade at around 20x 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.

Nathans Famous's EBITDA

Nathans Famous's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$28.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Nathans Famous's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Nathans Famous financials

Revenue TTM	USD$82.6 million
Operating margin TTM	32.65%
Gross profit TTM	USD$43.2 million
Return on assets TTM	15.8%
Return on equity TTM	0%
Profit margin	14.6%
Book value	$-15.413
Market capitalisation	USD$233.7 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Nathans Famous shares

There are currently 51,523 Nathans Famous shares held short by investors – that's known as Nathans Famous's "short interest". This figure is 9.7% down from 57,063 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Nathans Famous shares can be evaluated.

Nathans Famous's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Nathans Famous's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Nathans Famous shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Nathans Famous shares traded daily (recently around 8050.46875). Nathans Famous's SIR currently stands at 6.4. In other words for every 100,000 Nathans Famous shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6400 shares are currently held short.

However Nathans Famous's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Nathans Famous shares, or, against the total number of tradable Nathans Famous shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Nathans Famous's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Nathans Famous shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0219% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Nathans Famous shares, roughly 22 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Nathans Famous.

Find out more about how you can short Nathans Famous stock.

Nathans Famous share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 48.17% of net profits

Recently Nathans Famous has paid out, on average, around 48.17% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.33% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Nathans Famous shareholders could enjoy a 2.33% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Nathans Famous's case, that would currently equate to about $1.4 per share.

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

Nathans Famous's most recent dividend payout was on 4 December 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 20 November 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Nathans Famous share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Nathans Famous's shares have ranged in value from as little as $42.4858 up to $74.1765. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Nathans Famous's is 0.1894. This would suggest that Nathans Famous's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Nathans Famous overview

Nathan's Famous, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates in the foodservice industry. The company owns and franchises restaurants under the Nathan's Famous brand name, as well as sells products bearing the Nathan's Famous trademarks through various channels of distribution. It also has license agreements for the manufacture, distribution, marketing, and sale of Nathan's Famous branded hot dogs, sausages, and corned beef products in refrigerated consumer packages to be resold through retail channels, such as supermarkets, groceries, mass merchandisers, and club stores; and other Nathan's Famous branded refrigerated meat products in consumer packages to be resold through retail channels. In addition, the company has license agreements to manufacture Nathan's Famous branded hot dog and sausage products in bulk for use in the food service industry; for supplying Nathan's Famous natural casing and skinless hot dogs in bulk for use in the Nathan's Famous restaurant system; to manufacture proprietary spices; to manufacture and sell various products, including mustard, salsa, sauerkraut, and pickles; to produce and sell French fries and onion rings for retail sale; and to manufacture and sell miniature bagel dogs, franks-in-a-blanket, and other hors d'oeuvres through club stores, supermarkets, and other retail food stores. Further, the company sells Nathan's products directly to end users or to various foodservice distributors, as well as provides Arthur Treacher's brand fish fillets. As of March 29, 2020, its restaurant system consisted of four company-owned units in the New York City metropolitan area; and 216 franchised units in 21 states and nine foreign countries. Nathan's Famous, Inc. was founded in 1916 and is based in Jericho, New York.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Nathans Famous is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 31.476% of Nathans Famous shares are held by insiders and 50.049% by institutions.

• How many people work for Nathans Famous?

  Latest data suggests 120 work at Nathans Famous.

• When does the fiscal year end for Nathans Famous?

  Nathans Famous's fiscal year ends in March.

• Where is Nathans Famous based?

  Nathans Famous's address is: One Jericho Plaza, Jericho, NY, United States, 11753

• What is Nathans Famous's ISIN number?

  Nathans Famous's international securities identification number is: US6323471002

• What is Nathans Famous's CUSIP number?

  Nathans Famous's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 632347100