Not a good buy right now: price is extended (RSI_6 76) and sitting near resistance (710), which makes upside follow-through less attractive for an impatient entry.
No Intellectia edge today: Intellectia Proprietary Trading Signals
Near-term risk/reward skews negative into earnings (2026-02-11 After Hours) with weakening YoY fundamentals; I would avoid initiating here and would trim/exit if already holding strength.
Hedge funds and insiders are neutral, providing no supportive “smart money” tailwind.
Technical Analysis
Trend/Momentum: MACD histogram is positive and expanding (bullish momentum), but RSI_6 at ~76 indicates the move is overheated/overbought short-term.
Moving averages: converging MAs suggest the trend is not cleanly accelerating; price may chop or mean-revert rather than trend smoothly.
Key levels: Pivot ~678.9; immediate resistance R1 ~710.2 (current price ~709.7 is essentially at resistance); next resistance R2 ~729.5. Supports: S1 ~647.6, S2 ~628.3.
Probabilistic forward view (pattern-based): 50% odds point to mildly negative drift (-1.05% next day, -2.76% next week), which argues against chasing at resistance.
Options Data
Bullish
Open Interest Put-Call Ratio
Bullish
Option Volume Put-Call Ratio
Sentiment skew: Put/call ratios at 0.4 (OI and volume) imply bullish/low-hedging sentiment.
Volatility: IV 30d 31.5 vs historical vol ~34.4 (IV slightly below realized), but IV percentile is very high (92%), meaning IV is elevated versus its own history—often seen ahead of events (earnings).
Activity/liquidity: very low absolute options volume (7 contracts today) limits how much conviction to infer; today’s volume is also well below the 30-day average (~70%).
Net income: 99.9M, -24.25% YoY (profit decline accelerating vs revenue).
EPS: 10.67, -22.63% YoY.
Gross margin: 30.37%, down ~9.72% YoY (margin compression is a clear negative growth trend).
Growth
Profitability
Efficiency
Analyst Ratings and Price Target Trends
No analyst rating/price target change data was provided, so recent Wall Street trend cannot be confirmed from this dataset.
Practical “pros vs cons” view based on available data: Pros—momentum is still positive and options skew is bullish. Cons—earnings is imminent and recent quarterly results show weakening growth and margins, which typically makes analysts more cautious rather than more aggressive.
Wall Street analysts forecast NEU stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for NEU is 0 USD with a low forecast of 0 USD and a high forecast of 0 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
Analyst Rating
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Wall Street analysts forecast NEU stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for NEU is 0 USD with a low forecast of 0 USD and a high forecast of 0 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
