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NWE Stock  USD 58.51  0.64  1.11%   

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NorthWestern is trading at 58.51 as of the 1st of April 2025, a 1.11% increase since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's lowest day price was 57.27. NorthWestern has about a 31 percent probability of financial distress in the next few years of operation but had a somewhat good performance during the last 90 days. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 2nd of March 2025 and ending today, the 1st of April 2025. Click here to learn more.
NorthWestern Corporation, doing business as NorthWestern Energy, provides electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and various industrial customers. NorthWestern Corporation was incorporated in 1923 and is based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company has 61.33 M outstanding shares of which 1.24 M shares are now shorted by investors with about 2.33 days to cover. More on NorthWestern

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NorthWestern Stock Highlights

CEORobert Rowe
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Old Names[New West Energy Services Inc, Norwest Energy NL]
Business ConcentrationMulti-Utilities, Utilities - Regulated Electric, Utilities, NASDAQ Composite, SP Midcap 400, Basic Utilities, Diversified Assets, Utilities, Multi-Utilities, Utilities—Diversified, Utilities (View all Sectors)
Financial Strength
NorthWestern (NWE) is traded on NASDAQ Exchange in USA. It is located in 3010 West 69th Street, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, 57108 and employs 1,585 people. NorthWestern is listed under Multi-Utilities category by Fama And French industry classification. The company currently falls under 'Mid-Cap' category with a total capitalization of 3.55 B. NorthWestern runs under Multi-Utilities sector within Utilities industry. The entity has 61.33 M outstanding shares of which 1.24 M shares are now shorted by investors with about 2.33 days to cover. NorthWestern has about 9.07 M in cash with 406.74 M of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 0.16.
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The majority of NorthWestern outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors. These third-party entities are usually referred to as non-private investors looking to shop for positions in NorthWestern to benefit from reduced commissions. Consequently, institutional holders are subject to a different set of regulations than regular investors in NorthWestern. Please pay attention to any change in the institutional holdings of NorthWestern as this could imply that something significant has changed or is about to change at the company.
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NorthWestern Risk Profiles

Investors will always prefer to have the highest possible return on investment while minimizing volatility. NorthWestern market risk premium is the additional return an investor will receive from holding NorthWestern long position in a well-diversified portfolio.

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NorthWestern Corporate Directors

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Is Multi-Utilities space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of NorthWestern. If investors know NorthWestern will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about NorthWestern listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
The market value of NorthWestern is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of NorthWestern that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of NorthWestern's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is NorthWestern's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because NorthWestern's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect NorthWestern's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between NorthWestern's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if NorthWestern is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, NorthWestern's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.