NovaGold Resources Stock Forecast - Naive Prediction

NG Stock  USD 10.49  0.50  5.01%   
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of NovaGold Resources on the next trading day is expected to be 10.56 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.24 and the sum of the absolute errors of 14.44. NovaGold Stock Forecast is based on your current time horizon. We recommend always using this module together with an analysis of NovaGold Resources' historical fundamentals, such as revenue growth or operating cash flow patterns.
As of 23rd of January 2026 the relative strength momentum indicator of NovaGold Resources' share price is below 20 . This indicates that the stock is significantly oversold. The fundamental principle of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to quantify the velocity at which market participants are driving the price of a financial instrument upwards or downwards.

Momentum 0

 Sell Peaked

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of NovaGold Resources' future price could yield a significant profit. Please, note that this module is not intended to be used solely to calculate an intrinsic value of NovaGold Resources and does not consider all of the tangible or intangible factors available from NovaGold Resources' fundamental data. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with NovaGold Resources, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting NovaGold Resources' stock price prediction:
EPS Estimate Current Year
(0.19)
EPS Estimate Next Year
(0.17)
Wall Street Target Price
12.9623
EPS Estimate Current Quarter
(0.05)
Using NovaGold Resources hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of NovaGold Resources from the perspective of NovaGold Resources response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards NovaGold Resources using NovaGold Resources' stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards NovaGold using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of NovaGold Resources' stock price.

NovaGold Resources Short Interest

A significant increase or decrease in NovaGold Resources' short interest from the previous month could be a good indicator of investor sentiment towards NovaGold. Short interest can provide insight into the potential direction of NovaGold Resources stock and how bullish or bearish investors feel about the market overall.
200 Day MA
6.6928
Short Percent
0.0298
Short Ratio
3.88
Shares Short Prior Month
11.6 M
50 Day MA
9.5422

NovaGold Resources Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to NovaGold Resources' public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in NovaGold. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding NovaGold can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around NovaGold Resources. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.

NovaGold Resources Implied Volatility

    
  1.22  
NovaGold Resources' implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of NovaGold Resources stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if NovaGold Resources' implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that NovaGold Resources stock will not fluctuate a lot when NovaGold Resources' options are near their expiration.
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of NovaGold Resources on the next trading day is expected to be 10.56 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.24 and the sum of the absolute errors of 14.44.

NovaGold Resources after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 10.43  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of NovaGold Resources to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in NovaGold Stock please use our How to Invest in NovaGold Resources guide.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current NovaGold contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that NovaGold Resources will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0763% per day over the life of the 2026-03-20 option contract. With NovaGold Resources trading at USD 10.49, that is roughly USD 0.007999 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating NovaGold Resources' daily price movement you should consider acquiring NovaGold Resources options at the current volatility level of 1.22%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-03-20 NovaGold Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast NovaGold Resources' spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in NovaGold Resources' options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for NovaGold Resources stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current NovaGold Resources' open interest, investors have to compare it to NovaGold Resources' spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of NovaGold Resources is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in NovaGold. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

NovaGold Resources Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine NovaGold price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for NovaGold using various technical indicators. When you analyze NovaGold charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

NovaGold Resources Cash Forecast

Predicting cash flow or other financial metrics requires analysts to utilize a variety of statistical methods, techniques, and algorithms. These tools help uncover hidden patterns in the NovaGold Resources' financial statements, enabling forecasts of their impact on future stock prices.
 
Cash  
First Reported
1997-02-28
Previous Quarter
293.7 M
Current Value
58.2 M
Quarterly Volatility
71.8 M
 
Dot-com Bubble
 
Housing Crash
 
Credit Downgrade
 
Yuan Drop
 
Covid
A naive forecasting model for NovaGold Resources is a special case of the moving average forecasting where the number of periods used for smoothing is one. Therefore, the forecast of NovaGold Resources value for a given trading day is simply the observed value for the previous period. Due to the simplistic nature of the naive forecasting model, it can only be used to forecast up to one period.

NovaGold Resources Naive Prediction Price Forecast For the 24th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Naive Prediction forecasted value of NovaGold Resources on the next trading day is expected to be 10.56 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.24, mean absolute percentage error of 0.09, and the sum of the absolute errors of 14.44.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict NovaGold Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that NovaGold Resources' next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

NovaGold Resources Stock Forecast Pattern

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NovaGold Resources Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting NovaGold Resources' Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. NovaGold Resources' downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 7.69 and 13.44, respectively. We have considered NovaGold Resources' daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
10.49
10.56
Expected Value
13.44
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Naive Prediction forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of NovaGold Resources stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent NovaGold Resources stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria115.7401
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation0.2367
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0256
SAESum of the absolute errors14.4376
This model is not at all useful as a medium-long range forecasting tool of NovaGold Resources. This model is simplistic and is included partly for completeness and partly because of its simplicity. It is unlikely that you'll want to use this model directly to predict NovaGold Resources. Instead, consider using either the moving average model or the more general weighted moving average model with a higher (i.e., greater than 1) number of periods, and possibly a different set of weights.

Predictive Modules for NovaGold Resources

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as NovaGold Resources. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
7.5310.4313.33
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
7.6910.5913.49
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
9.269.9010.54
Details
3 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
11.8012.9614.39
Details
Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as NovaGold Resources. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against NovaGold Resources' peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, NovaGold Resources' competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in NovaGold Resources.

NovaGold Resources After-Hype Price Prediction Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of NovaGold Resources at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in NovaGold Resources or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of NovaGold Resources, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

NovaGold Resources Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting NovaGold Resources' stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on NovaGold Resources' historical news coverage. NovaGold Resources' after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 7.53 and 13.33, respectively. We have considered NovaGold Resources' daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
10.49
10.43
After-hype Price
13.33
Upside
NovaGold Resources is somewhat reliable at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of NovaGold Resources is based on 3 months time horizon.

NovaGold Resources Stock Price Prediction Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as NovaGold Resources is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading NovaGold Resources backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with NovaGold Resources, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.46 
2.88
  0.06 
  0.31 
9 Events / Month
6 Events / Month
In about 9 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
10.49
10.43
0.57 
2,215  
Notes

NovaGold Resources Hype Timeline

As of January 23, 2026 NovaGold Resources is listed for 10.49. The entity has historical hype elasticity of -0.06, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.31. NovaGold is forecasted to decline in value after the next headline, with the price expected to drop to 10.43. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company price is over 100%. The price decline on the next news is expected to be -0.57%, whereas the daily expected return is now at 0.46%. The volatility of related hype on NovaGold Resources is about 421.05%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 10.80. About 25.0% of the company outstanding shares are owned by corporate insiders. The company recorded a loss per share of 0.25. NovaGold Resources had not issued any dividends in recent years. Allowing for the 90-day total investment horizon the next forecasted press release will be in about 9 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of NovaGold Resources to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in NovaGold Stock please use our How to Invest in NovaGold Resources guide.

NovaGold Resources Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to NovaGold Resources' direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict NovaGold Resources' future price movements. Getting to know how NovaGold Resources' peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how NovaGold Resources may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
ORLAOrla Mining 0.09 11 per month 3.60  0.12  7.66 (6.47) 23.54 
SANDSandstorm Gold 0.19 11 per month 1.80  0.15  2.89 (2.55) 9.52 
SASeabridge Gold 0.38 11 per month 3.31  0.13  6.36 (4.99) 13.18 
USLMUnited States Lime 1.03 9 per month 2.20 (0.05) 3.08 (3.63) 8.80 
CGAUCenterra Gold(0.08)10 per month 2.43  0.19  5.00 (4.58) 14.92 
KNFKnife River 2.30 10 per month 1.92  0.06  3.85 (3.03) 16.62 
CBTCabot(0.09)10 per month 1.86 (0) 3.72 (2.71) 8.68 
FULH B Fuller 2.06 11 per month 1.53 (0.02) 3.48 (2.38) 8.23 
AUGOAura Minerals Common 1.07 11 per month 3.04  0.26  6.74 (4.28) 15.74 
PRMPerimeter Solutions SA(0.11)10 per month 2.48  0.09  3.38 (3.85) 30.19 

Other Forecasting Options for NovaGold Resources

For every potential investor in NovaGold, whether a beginner or expert, NovaGold Resources' price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. NovaGold Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in NovaGold. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying NovaGold Resources' price trends.

NovaGold Resources Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with NovaGold Resources stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of NovaGold Resources could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing NovaGold Resources by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
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NovaGold Resources Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how NovaGold Resources stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading NovaGold Resources shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying NovaGold Resources stock market strength indicators, traders can identify NovaGold Resources entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

NovaGold Resources Risk Indicators

The analysis of NovaGold Resources' basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in NovaGold Resources' investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting novagold stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for NovaGold Resources

The number of cover stories for NovaGold Resources depends on current market conditions and NovaGold Resources' risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that NovaGold Resources is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about NovaGold Resources' long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

NovaGold Resources Short Properties

NovaGold Resources' future price predictability will typically decrease when NovaGold Resources' long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of NovaGold Resources often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential NovaGold Resources' investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. NovaGold Resources' indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding334.5 M
Cash And Short Term Investments101.1 M
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of NovaGold Resources to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in NovaGold Stock please use our How to Invest in NovaGold Resources guide.
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Is Metals & Mining space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of NovaGold Resources. If investors know NovaGold will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about NovaGold Resources listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Earnings Share
(0.25)
Return On Assets
(0.06)
Return On Equity
(1.29)
The market value of NovaGold Resources is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of NovaGold that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of NovaGold Resources' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is NovaGold Resources' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because NovaGold Resources' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect NovaGold Resources' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between NovaGold Resources' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if NovaGold Resources is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, NovaGold Resources' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.