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Top National Presto Executive Makes Notable Move With Company Stock
TipRanks (Wed, 18-Mar 10:06 PM ET)
National Presto Industries Inc has an electric product portfolio consisting of household appliances, ammunition, and diapers. The company operates in three segments, namely Defense, Housewares/Small Appliance, and Safety. The defense segment, which is engaged in manufacturing 40mm ammunition, precision mechanical and electro-mechanical assemblies, and medium caliber cartridge cases, performs Load, Assemble, and Pack (LAP) operations on ordnance-related products for the U.S. Government and prime contractor. While the Housewares/Small Appliance segment designs, markets, and distributes housewares and small electrical appliances, the safety segment provides safety technology empowering organizations and individuals to protect what is more important.
National Presto Industries trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NPK.
As of March 20, 2026, NPK stock price declined to $129.65 with 155,311 million shares trading.
NPK has a beta of 0.85, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NPK has a correlation of 0.18 to the broad based SPY ETF.
NPK has a market cap of $928.86 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, NPK traded as high as $149.86 and as low as $66.84.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that NPK belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, XAR, VTI, IWM, SHLD.
NPK has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +46.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +16.6%. In the last 3 month period, NPK beat the market returning +23.9%, while SPY returned -4.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks NPK has underperformed the stock market by returning -4.3%, while SPY returned -3.3%.
NPK support price is $129.53 and resistance is $137.87 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NPK shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
