Novo Nordisk (NVO) is one of the most beloved stocks in the hot GLP-1 market. Shares keep ramping, surging 14% in 2024. One signal reveals when the demand kicked into high gear.
Institutional volumes reveal plenty. For 1-year, NVO has enjoyed heavy institutional support.
Each green bar signals unusually large volumes in NVO shares, pushing the stock higher:
Plenty of health care names are under accumulation right now. You can see that with the strong YTD +3.75% performance in the Health Care Select SPDR Fund (XLV). But there’s a powerful fundamental backdrop going on with NVO.
Institutional support coupled with a healthy fundamental backdrop makes this company worth investigating. As you can see, NVO has had positive sales & EPS growth in recent years:
Source: FactSet
EPS is estimated to ramp higher this year by +20.3%.
Now it makes sense why the stock has been powering to new heights. Novo is an earnings powerhouse.
Marrying great fundamentals with our proprietary software has found some big winning stocks over the long-term.
Novo Nordisk has been a top-rated stock at MAPsignals. That means the stock has unusual buy pressure and growing fundamentals. We have a ranking process that showcases stocks like this on a weekly basis.
It’s made the rare Top 20 report multiple times over the years. The blue bars below shows when NVO was a top pick…cutting through the noise:
Tracking unusual volumes reveals the power of money flows.
Follow the Big Money.
This is a trait that most outlier stocks exhibit…the superstars.
The NVO rally began many months ago. Big Money buying in the shares is signaling to take notice. Given the historical gains in share price and strong fundamentals, this stock could be worth a spot in a diversified portfolio.
Disclosure: the author holds no position in NVO at the time of publication.
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Lucas is a well-versed equity investor and educator. He currently is co-founder of research and analytics firm, MAPsignals.com, which focuses on finding outlier stocks by following the Big Money.