Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) price on current trading day, fall -4.18% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $24.04.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $25.09. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 21.20. Turning to its 52-week performance, $33.44 and $23.56 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MOS moved -16.18% over the past month.
Mosaic Company’s market cap currently stands at around $7.64 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.84, with its dividend yield at 3.49%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 2.81B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 2.71B and 2.98B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 4.89% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 11.73B, representing a 5.49% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that MOS is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
20 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 5 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 14 recommend MOS as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
MOS’s current price about -9.21% and -8.11% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 32.50, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.81% and 3.28% in the 30-day chart. Further, Mosaic Company (MOS) has a beta value of 1.35, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.94. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $38, forecast between a low of $26 and high of $44. Looking at the price targets, the low is -8.15% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -83.03%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -58.07% jump to $38 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.64 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 317.87 million shares.
The 1.15% of Mosaic Company’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 87.14% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock -2.20% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MOS stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
