U.S. Natural Gas Prices Surge Over 30% Amid Winter Storm
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: 1d ago
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Source: Benzinga
- Natural Gas Surge: U.S. natural gas prices soared over 30% on Monday due to Winter Storm Fern disrupting supply and sharply increasing heating demand, with the Henry Hub front-month contract now trading above $6 per million British thermal units, marking a 125% increase from just a week ago.
- Precious Metals Rally: The weakening dollar fueled a broader commodity breakout, with gold rising 2.2% to $5,100 and silver surging 13% to $116 per ounce, achieving its best one-day gain since September 2008 and lifting its rolling 12-month gain to 266%, the strongest since 1980.
- Tech Stocks Outperform: Amid ongoing supply disruptions in the DRAM market, memory-linked stocks such as Seagate, Western Digital, and SanDisk extended their gains, contributing to a stronger performance in technology stocks as the S&P 500 sits less than half a percentage point from record highs.
- Major Indices Performance: The Nasdaq 100 rose 0.7% to 25,796.15, the S&P 500 increased 0.7% to 6,966.04, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.5% to 49,350.28, reflecting overall market optimism.
Analyst Views on NET
Wall Street analysts forecast NET stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for NET is 253.24 USD with a low forecast of 131.00 USD and a high forecast of 318.00 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.
25 Analyst Rating
15 Buy
10 Hold
0 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 189.350
Low
131.00
Averages
253.24
High
318.00
Current: 189.350
Low
131.00
Averages
253.24
High
318.00
About NET
Cloudflare, Inc. is a connectivity cloud company. Its full suite of products consists of its website and application services to deliver security, performance, and reliability for an organization's websites, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs); its secure access service edge (SASE) platform, which contains its suite of Zero Trust and network services solutions to help ensure traffic in and out of an organization’s internal network and devices is verified and authorized as well as to securely connect data centers, cloud services, and branch offices to an organization with its Connectivity Cloud; its developer-based solutions to build and deploy serverless applications with scale, performance, security and reliability, and its consumer offerings. Its website and application security product offerings include Web Application Firewall, Bot Management, Distributed Denial of Service Protection, API Security, SSL/TLS Encryption, Script Management, and Security Center.
About the author

Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.








