NWE

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc.
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Utilities DELAYED
Last price
70.80
▲ 2.04 (2.97%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
68.94
Prev close
68.76
Day high
69.45
Day low
68.81
Volume
448.97K
Market cap
$4.24B
P/E (TTM)
24.88
52W range
57.12 – 75.18

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+0.26%
Prior close 68.76
VWAP
68.99
+2.62% from price
Relative volume
1.91×
Unusually busy
Session range
5.29%
68.81 – 72.45
Position in range
55%
Mid range
ATR (14D)
1.54
2.17% of price
Prior day high
69.46
PDH
Prior day low
68.51
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
788.05K
Avg 411.92K

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+0.33% -1.6%
1M
-2.63% -3.8%
3M
-2.00% -6.5%
6M
-1.10% -19.3%
YTD
+6.79% -7.5%
1Y
+19.38% +3.0%
3Y
+43.40% -38.8%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on NWE open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
0
Net selling
Buy transactions
0
0 shares
Sell transactions
0
—
Net transactions
0
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
—
Not enough filings
Insider-held shares
406.02K
Total on file

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Aug 6, 26
HORSFALL JAN ROBERT
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Aug 4, 26
YINGLING JEFFREY W.
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Jul 9, 26
SULLIVAN LINDA GAIL
Director
STOCK 768 $55.00K Direct
Jul 9, 26
LARSON KENT T
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Jul 9, 26
IDE BRITT E
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Jul 9, 26
EDWARDS SHERINA MAYE
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Jul 9, 26
YAZDI MAHVASH
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Jul 9, 26
GOODIN DAVID L
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
Jul 6, 26
YAZDI MAHVASH
Director
STOCK 524 $37.53K Direct
May 11, 26
YINGLING JEFFREY W.
Director
STOCK 569 $37.52K Direct
May 11, 26
HORSFALL JAN ROBERT
Director
STOCK 569 $37.52K Direct
Apr 7, 26
SULLIVAN LINDA GAIL
Director
STOCK 834 $54.99K Direct
Apr 7, 26
LARSON KENT T
Director
STOCK 569 $37.52K Direct
Apr 7, 26
IDE BRITT E
Director
STOCK 569 $37.52K Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
BIRD BRIAN B
Chief Executive Officer 218.05K Stock Award(Grant)
CASHELL MICHAEL R
Officer 27.34K Stock Award(Grant)
CLARK ANTHONY THOMAS
Director 16.82K Sale
HINES JOHN D
Officer 41.97K Stock Award(Grant)
IDE BRITT E
Director 15.56K Stock Award(Grant)
LAIL CRYSTAL DAWN
Chief Financial Officer 35.08K Stock Award(Grant)
SCHROEPPEL BOBBI L
Officer 38.48K Stock Award(Grant)
SULLIVAN LINDA GAIL
Director 34.59K Stock Award(Grant)
YAZDI MAHVASH
Director 22.93K Stock Award(Grant)
YINGLING JEFFREY W.
Director 24.35K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$4.24B
Enterprise value$7.83B
Revenue (TTM)$1.69B
Gross profit$940.20M
EBITDA$593.23M
Net income$171.37M
EPS (TTM)$2.77
Free cash flow$-242.99M
Total cash$4.18M
Total debt$3.60B
Book value / share$47.07
Shares outstanding61.52M
Float61.11M
Short % of float4.29%
Dividend yield3.89%
Beta (5Y)0.32

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E24.88
Forward P/E17.39
PEG ratio2.71
Price / sales—
Price / book1.46
EV / revenue4.63
EV / EBITDA13.20
Gross margin55.59%
Operating margin17.34%
Profit margin10.13%
Return on equity5.93%
Return on assets2.48%
Debt / equity124.22
Current ratio0.83
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 6 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $1.61B$1.51B$1.42B$1.48B +6.4%
Operating revenue $1.61B$1.51B$1.42B$1.48B +6.4%
Cost of revenue $694.68M$661.65M$640.79M$713.44M +5.0%
Gross profit $915.88M$852.25M$781.36M$764.40M +7.5%
Selling, general & admin $158.24M$137.44M$117.36M$113.78M +15.1%
Total operating expense $590.06M$528.92M$480.90M$501.32M +11.6%
Operating income $325.82M$323.32M$300.45M$263.08M +0.8%
Net interest income -$150.35M-$131.67M-$114.62M-$100.11M -14.2%
Pre-tax income $187.56M$214.67M$201.67M$182.40M -12.6%
Tax provision $6.47M-$9.44M$7.54M-$605.00K +168.6%
Net income $181.09M$224.11M$194.13M$183.01M -19.2%
Net income to common $181.09M$224.11M$194.13M$183.01M -19.2%
Basic EPS 2.953.653.223.28 -19.3%
Diluted EPS 2.943.653.223.25 -19.5%
EBIT $337.92M$346.35M$316.29M$282.51M -2.4%
EBITDA $587.44M$573.98M$526.76M$477.53M +2.3%
Basic shares 61.38M61.32M60.32M55.80M +0.1%
Diluted shares 61.54M61.40M60.36M56.30M +0.2%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.00
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
—
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
65.00
-5.7% from spot
ATM implied vol
3.1%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
0.0%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
4
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
70.00
0 contracts
Heaviest put OI
65.00
0 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 0.430.50 +15.0%
Mar 2026 1.291.31 +1.3%
Dec 2025 1.191.17 -1.5%
Sep 2025 0.750.79 +4.8%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.77 7 $418.79M +8.2%
Next quarter 1.16 6 $446.85M +7.9%
Current year 3.73 8 $1.75B +8.4%
Next year 3.96 8 $1.83B +4.6%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$73.25
High target$78.50
Low target$70.00
Implied upside3.46%
Analyst count6
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy1 / 2
Hold4
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders0.66%
Held by institutions97.94%
Institutions holding488
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
68.62
+3.17% from price
SMA 20
68.93
-0.02% from price
SMA 50
69.89
-1.38% from price
SMA 100
70.50
+0.43% from price
SMA 200
69.46
-0.77% from price
EMA 12
68.86
+2.82% from price
EMA 26
69.24
+2.25% from price
EMA 50
69.73
+1.53% from price
RSI (14)
47.8
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.38
Hist 0.07
ATR (14)
1.54
2.23% of price
Realised vol 30D
17.1%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
70.30
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
67.56
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
69.89 vs 69.46
Trend bias
Below 200
-0.77%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 70.80
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.11
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.06
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
17.1%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-11.0%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-25.8%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
1.54
2.23% of price
Beta (reported)
0.32
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
1.99M
Prior 1.59M
Change vs prior
+25.7%
Shorts adding
% of float
4.29%
Normal
% of shares out
3.24%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
5.3
Crowded exit
Float
61.11M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

125 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 6, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Sep 9, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Jul 31, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Jul 22, 26 Wells Fargo UPGRADE Underweight Equal-Weight
Jul 9, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Apr 21, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Apr 21, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Apr 1, 26 Ladenburg Thalmann UPGRADE Neutral Buy
Feb 13, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Underweight Underweight
Feb 13, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Market Perform Market Perform
Jan 22, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jan 20, 26 Wells Fargo DOWNGRADE Equal-Weight Underweight

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$2.68 / yr
Forward yield3.89%
5-year avg yield4.48%
Payout ratio96.03%
Ex-dividend dateAug 17, 2026
Next pay dateSep 1, 2026
Last split—
Split date—

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