The internal stress in single crystals of Ni52Mn24Ga2 4 has been calculated based on the balance equation and the experimental data on transformation strains with or without bias field. It was found that the residual oriented internal stress caused by the directional solidification during the crystal growth plays an important role in achieving the reorientation of the variants, and resulting in a large transformation strain.Furthermore, according to Maxwell equation and Ullako's thermal dynamic model, the theoretical value of magnetic-field-induced strains and internal stress at different temperatures in martensite was calculated based on a best fitting of the strain curves versus the bias field. Compared with the experimental observation, the availability of various models has been discussed.