How to buy Neenah stock | 45.35

Neenah, Inc is a paper & paper products business based in the US. Neenah shares (NP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Neenah employs 2,324 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$799.3 million.

How to buy shares in Neenah

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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 Neenah. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: NP. 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 Neenah 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$45.35, 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 Neenah, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Neenah. 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 Neenah's share price?

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

Its last market close was USD$45.35, which is 29.86% down on its pre-crash value of USD$64.66 and 35.62% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$33.44.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Neenah shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$516.85 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$666.65.

Neenah share price

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Neenah shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-25.

Latest market close	USD$45.35
52-week range	USD$32.4319 - USD$71.4454
50-day moving average	USD$41.0611
200-day moving average	USD$45.3024
Wall St. target price	USD$53.33
PE ratio	13.3192
Dividend yield	USD$1.88 (3.91%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$3.54

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Neenah price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $45.35 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-16)	45.35
1 month (2020-10-26)	16.13%
3 months (2020-08-24)	0.22%
6 months (2020-05-22)	-10.43%

1 year (2019-11-22)	-34.69%
2 years (2018-11-23)	-33.33%
3 years (2017-11-24)	-48.67%
5 years (2015-11-24)	-30.78%

Is Neenah under- or over-valued?

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

Neenah's P/E ratio

Neenah's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, Neenah shares trade at around 13x 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.

Neenah's PEG ratio

Neenah's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.85. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Neenah's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Neenah's EBITDA

Neenah's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$101.4 million.

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

Neenah financials

Revenue TTM	USD$799.3 million
Operating margin TTM	8.07%
Gross profit TTM	USD$183.4 million
Return on assets TTM	4.98%
Return on equity TTM	-2.64%
Profit margin	-1.28%
Book value	$21.843
Market capitalisation	USD$808.2 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Neenah shares

There are currently 442,964 Neenah shares held short by investors – that's known as Neenah's "short interest". This figure is 121.1% up from 200,370 last month.

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

Neenah's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Neenah's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Neenah shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Neenah shares traded daily (recently around 93255.578947368). Neenah's SIR currently stands at 4.75. In other words for every 100,000 Neenah shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4750 shares are currently held short.

However Neenah's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Neenah shares, or, against the total number of tradable Neenah shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Neenah's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Neenah shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0315% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Neenah shares, roughly 32 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Neenah.

Find out more about how you can short Neenah stock.

Neenah share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 76.42% of net profits

Recently Neenah has paid out, on average, around 76.42% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.91% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Neenah shareholders could enjoy a 3.91% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Neenah's case, that would currently equate to about $1.88 per share.

Neenah's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Neenah's most recent dividend payout was on 2 December 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 12 November 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Neenah share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Neenah's shares have ranged in value from as little as $32.4319 up to $71.4454. 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 Neenah's is 1.3298. This would suggest that Neenah's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Neenah overview

Neenah, Inc. produces and sells technical products, and fine paper and packaging products worldwide. Its Technical Products segment offers filtration media for transportation, water, and other uses; saturated and unsaturated crepe, and flat paper tapes; and coated lightweight abrasive papers for automotive, construction, metal, and woodworking industries. It also provides digital image transfer media; label and tag products for digital printing; latex saturated and coated, premask, medical packaging, digital transfer, publishing, security, clean room and durable printing, and release papers; and furniture backers. The company's Fine Paper and Packaging segment provides writing, text, cover, and specialty papers; and envelopes used in commercial printing services, corporate identity packages, and advertising collaterals. It also provides packaging products for retail, cosmetics, spirits, and electronics end-use markets; bright papers for direct mails, advertising inserts, scrapbooks, and marketing collaterals; business papers for professionals and small businesses; translucent and art papers; and papers for optical scanning and other specialized applications. The company markets its products under the JET-PRO SofStretch, KIMDURA, PREVAIL, NEENAH, GESSNER, CLASSIC, CLASSIC CREST, ENVIRONMENT, ROYAL SUNDANCE, SOUTHWORTH, TOUCHE, SO...SILK, PLIKE, STARDREAM, CONVERD, ESTATE LABEL, KIVAR, SKIVERTEX, ASTROBRIGHTS, and NEENAH IMAGEMAX brand names through authorized paper distributors, converters, retailers, and specialty businesses; and direct to end users. The company was formerly known as Neenah Paper, Inc. and changed its name to Neenah, Inc. in January 2018. Neenah, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Neenah is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.259% of Neenah shares are held by insiders and 93.541% by institutions.

• How many people work for Neenah?

  Latest data suggests 2,324 work at Neenah.

• When does the fiscal year end for Neenah?

  Neenah's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Neenah based?

  Neenah's address is: 3460 Preston Ridge Road, Alpharetta, GA, United States, 30005

• What is Neenah's ISIN number?

  Neenah's international securities identification number is: US6400791090

• What is Neenah's CUSIP number?

  Neenah's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 640079109