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Many investors also have a go-to methodology that helps guide their buy and sell decisions. One way to find winning stocks based on your preferred way of investing is to use the Zacks Style Scores, which are indicators that rate stocks based on three widely-followed investing types: value, growth, and momentum.
Different than value or growth investors, momentum-oriented investors live by the saying "the trend is your friend." This investing style is all about taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Employing factors like one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, the Momentum Style Score can indicate favorable times to build a position in high-momentum stocks.
Founded in 1902, Williamsville, New York-based National Fuel Gas Company is an integrated energy company, which has natural gas assets located in the prolific Appalachian basin and oil-producing assets in California. The company operates through the following segments, namely Exploration and Production and Other, Pipeline and Storage and Gathering, and Utility and Energy Marketing.
NFG boasts a Momentum Style Score of A and VGM Score of B, and holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) rating. Shares of National Fuel Gas has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is down 1.1% over the past one week and up 3.6% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, NFG has gained 25%. As for the stock's trading volume, 504,575.59 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For NFG, one analyst revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.10 to $6 per share for 2025. NFG boasts an average earnings surprise of 9.5%.
With strong earnings growth, a good Zacks Rank, and top-tier Momentum and VGM Style Scores, investors should think about adding NFG to their portfolios.
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