With 1.73 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.67 million shares. During the session, the Agricultural Inputs company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $91.06 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $89.51. The 52-week range on CF shows that it touched its highest point at $90.86 and its lowest point at $69.13 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $86.79. With its current market cap of 15.77 billion, CF has annualized dividend of $2.00 while the current yield stands at 2.21%. CF paid its most recent dividend on 1731628800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.97.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of CF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.71%, but this was up by 7.69% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.72% while six-month performance rose 15.82%. The stock gained 18.50% in the past year, while it has gained 14.01% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CF yields 6.31 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.97. For the next quarter, that number is 1.62. This implies an EPS growth rate of -24.00% for this year and -4.53% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -11.80% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 44.70%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 188.19 million CF shares are outstanding with a float of 172.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 3.28 million, which was 189.0 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. W. Anthony Will as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Christopher D. Bohn serves as its Executive VP, COO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.96388 of CF’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, CF reported revenue of $1370000000.0 and operating income of $362000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $663000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.55.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CF since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 5 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With CF analysts setting a high price target of 105.0 and a low target of 69.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 87.036. Based on these targets, CF could surge 15.84% to reach the target high and fall by -23.87% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -3.98% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.58028 being high and $6.05584 being low. For CF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.25374. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.91. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $2.22 and the low estimate is $1.45. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.61.
