What Happened?
Shares of industrial components supplier NN (NASDAQ: NNBR) fell 7.4% in the afternoon session after April CPI hit 3.8% and Brent oil climbed to ~$107 confirming through the consumer data what manufacturers already reported through the ISM survey.
The ISM Prices Index reached 84.6% in April, a four-year high, with input costs running 25.6 percentage points higher over just three months. The ISM Manufacturing PMI held at 52.7%, fourth straight month of expansion, but 47% of manufacturer comments mentioned the Iran war and 18% mentioned tariffs as price drivers, with sentiment 69% negative.
Manufacturers use energy throughout production, powering equipment, running furnaces, fueling delivery fleets. When oil rises, costs also rise, compressing gross margins. Rising Treasury yields added a second pressure: capital spending, new equipment, factory expansion, is typically financed with long-term debt whose cost moves with the 10-year yield. The 4.43% level was the highest in months. The hot CPI print also makes it harder for manufacturers to pass costs to customers without triggering further consumer pullback.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
NN’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 54 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 27 days ago when the stock gained 29.2% on the news that the company raised its full-year guidance for new business wins and announced that preliminary first-quarter net sales were expected to show growth.
This update followed the securing of approximately $43 million in new business awards during the first quarter, primarily from the electric grid and data center markets. Based on this strong performance, NN lifted its 2026 new business wins guidance to a range of $80 million to $90 million. While the company maintained its full-year net sales guidance of $445 million to $465 million, it noted that it now expected results to fall in the upper half of that range.
NN is up 77.2% since the beginning of the year, but at $2.38 per share, it is still trading 15.2% below its 52-week high of $2.80 from May 2026. Despite the year-to-date gain, investors who bought $1,000 worth of NN’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at only $337.36.
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