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New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE)

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Fundamental
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Sentiment
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Technical
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Do Nothing: fundamentalScore 1 and qualitativeScore 1 are below the required floor of 3; NFE also fails the liquidity floor and shows a 6.09% overnight gap while the chart remains below all major moving averages.

Analysis as of 2026-08-19· more than 2 trading days ago

Company overview

New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE) is an integrated company specializing in gas-to-power infrastructure, providing energy solutions and development services to customers worldwide. The company operates through two primary divisions: Terminals and Infrastructure, and Ships. The Terminals and Infrastructure segment manages the procurement and liquefaction of natural gas, along with its shipping, logistics, and the development or conversion of natural gas-fueled power generation facilities. Its Ships segment supplies floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, which are leased to clients via long-term contracts or spot arrangements. NFE maintains a network of operational assets globally, including an LNG storage and regasification facility in Montego Bay, Jamaica; a marine LNG storage and regasification terminal in Old Harbour, Jamaica; a micro-fuel handling plant in San Juan, Puerto Rico; a marine LNG storage and regasification site in Sergipe, Brazil; an LNG receiving terminal in La Paz, Mexico; and a facility in Miami. Established in 1998, New Fortress Energy Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.

Fundamental

very weak
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Distressed fundamentals

The company faces severe financial distress with negative equity, ongoing debt defaults, and a restructuring process.

High-distress fundamentals: recent SEC filings include substantial-doubt going-concern language and describe debt defaults/forbearance alongside an ongoing restructuring. Liquidity and solvency metrics are in the distress zone (very low current ratio, negative equity, negative interest coverage), profitability/cash flow are deeply negative, and the discounted-cash-flow outputs are negative. This setup is dominated by restructuring outcome risk rather than normal operating fundamentals.

Sentiment

very weak
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Bearish sentiment

Media sentiment is bearish, focusing on restructuring and solvency concerns, with speculative retail chatter.

Last ~14d media sentiment is decisively bearish, centered on the Aug-06 Q2 loss/estimate miss and continued restructuring plus the Nicaragua plant delay; baseline sentiment delta is indeterminate because the 30–90d sentiment pull timed out. Severe red-flag cap applied due to disclosed substantial-doubt going-concern language and restructuring/default context.

Technical

very weak
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Bearish trend

The stock is in a strong downtrend, trading below key averages with weak momentum indicators.

Bearish structure dominates: NFE is below the 20/50/200-day SMAs and 9/21-day EMAs, MACD remains below zero, and ADX 46.25 confirms a strong prevailing downtrend; oversold RSI and Williams %R readings alone do not confirm a reversal.

You’re looking at 2026-08-19 — more than 2 trading days ago.

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