National Instruments Corporation (NATI): Price and Financial Metrics
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NATI POWR Grades
- Quality is the dimension where NATI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.05% of US stocks.
- NATI's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 155 days.
- NATI ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 25th percentile.
NATI Stock Summary
- With a price/earnings ratio of 49.1, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS CORP P/E ratio is greater than that of about 88.58% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
- Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for NATI is currently 159.6, higher than 97.84% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
- With a year-over-year growth in debt of 70.56%, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 85.38% of about US stocks.
- Stocks that are quantitatively similar to NATI, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ALKS, ATEN, MDRX, VIAV, and NOVT.
- Visit NATI's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.ni.com.
NATI Valuation Summary
- NATI's price/sales ratio is 4.1; this is 70.83% higher than that of the median Technology stock.
- Over the past 243 months, NATI's price/earnings ratio has gone down 10.2.
Below are key valuation metrics over time for NATI.
Stock | Date | P/S | P/B | P/E | EV/EBIT |
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NATI | 2023-03-21 | 4.1 | 5.8 | 48.2 | 41.8 |
NATI | 2023-03-20 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 47.7 | 41.3 |
NATI | 2023-03-17 | 4.0 | 5.8 | 47.6 | 41.3 |
NATI | 2023-03-16 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 47.5 | 41.2 |
NATI | 2023-03-15 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 46.8 | 40.6 |
NATI | 2023-03-14 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 47.0 | 40.8 |
NATI Growth Metrics
- Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -17.38%.
- Its year over year price growth rate is now at -10.41%.
- Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 1.06%.

The table below shows NATI's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).
Date | Revenue | Operating Cash Flow | Net Income to Common Stock |
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2022-12-31 | 1,656.975 | 42.964 | 139.644 |
2022-09-30 | 1,629.34 | 48.533 | 139.913 |
2022-06-30 | 1,568.574 | 46.274 | 105.183 |
2022-03-31 | 1,519.755 | 109.81 | 110.055 |
2021-12-31 | 1,469.681 | 143.499 | 89.315 |
2021-09-30 | 1,416.877 | 158.019 | 53.714 |
NATI's Quality Factors
The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.- NATI has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 89.2% of graded US stocks.
- NATI's asset turnover comes in at 0.735 -- ranking 208th of 560 Business Services stocks.
- HCKT, RHI, and TZOO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NATI.
The table below shows NATI's key quality metrics over time.
Period | Asset Turnover | Gross Margin | ROIC |
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2021-06-30 | 0.735 | 0.708 | 0.049 |
2021-03-31 | 0.709 | 0.708 | 0.040 |
2020-12-31 | 0.701 | 0.712 | 0.245 |
2020-09-30 | 0.724 | 0.726 | 0.284 |
2020-06-30 | 0.765 | 0.737 | 0.367 |
2020-03-31 | 0.809 | 0.745 | 0.380 |
NATI Price Target
For more insight on analysts targets of NATI, see our NATI price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.
Average Price Target | $47.00 | Average Broker Recommendation | 1.75 (Moderate Buy) |
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NATI Price/Volume Stats
Current price | $51.97 | 52-week high | $55.04 |
Prev. close | $52.01 | 52-week low | $29.81 |
Day low | $51.75 | Volume | 1,232,100 |
Day high | $52.11 | Avg. volume | 2,076,176 |
50-day MA | $52.05 | Dividend yield | 2.15% |
200-day MA | $41.41 | Market Cap | 6.83B |
National Instruments Corporation (NATI) Company Bio
National Instruments designs, manufactures, and sells systems to engineers and scientists worldwide. The Company offers graphical system design approach to engineering, which provides a software and hardware platform for the development of systems needing measurement and control. The company was founded in 1976 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Latest NATI News From Around the Web
Below are the latest news stories about NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS CORP that investors may wish to consider to help them evaluate NATI as an investment opportunity.
Who Will Win the Bidding War for National Instruments?The bidding war for National Instruments, or NI (NASDAQ: NATI), is heating up, according to Reuters. Not only is Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) still firmly in the frame, but NI's rival Keysight (NYSE: KEYS) and industry peer Fortive (NYSE: FTV) are also believed to be part of the process. What's going on, and what does it mean for the investment proposition for these stocks? |
NI Acquires SET GmbH to Accelerate Power Semiconductor and Aerospace/Defense Test System DevelopmentAUSTIN, Texas, March 06, 2023--NI (NASDAQ: NATI) today announced the acquisition of SET GmbH ("SET"), long-standing experts in aerospace and defense test system development and recent innovators in power semiconductor reliability test. Together, the companies will reduce time to market for critical, highly differentiated solutions and accelerate semiconductor-to-transportation supply-chain convergence with power electronic materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitrite (GaN). |
National Instruments picks Fortive, Keysight as challengers to Emerson's bid -sourcesMeasurement equipment maker National Instruments Corp has decided that Fortive Corp and Keysight Technologies Inc have the potential to top Emerson Electric Co's $7 billion bid for the company, three people familiar with the matter said. National Instruments this week informed Emerson, Fortive and Keysight -- which are all providers of automation solutions facilitating manufacturing in various industries -- that their offers qualify them to go through the second round of bidding for the company, the sources said. National Instruments put itself up for sale in January after Emerson threatened to challenge its board if it did not engage in deal negotiations. |
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Is Emerson Electric Stock a Buy?The industrial company's management intends to transform the company into a pure-play automation stock. |
NATI Price Returns
1-mo | 2.95% |
3-mo | 41.02% |
6-mo | 39.51% |
1-year | 29.28% |
3-year | 79.53% |
5-year | 16.69% |
YTD | 41.59% |
2022 | -12.94% |
2021 | 1.98% |
2020 | 6.71% |
2019 | -4.52% |
2018 | 11.23% |
NATI Dividends
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