CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF) price on current trading day, rose 5.72% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $99.20.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $93.83, moving within a range at $96.26 and $99.69. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.955 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 13.08. Turning to its 52-week performance, $98.25 and $67.34 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, CF moved 15.39% over the past month.
CF Industries Holdings Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $16.07 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-06. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.00, with its dividend yield at 2.02%. 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 1.72B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.66B and 1.78B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 9.33% 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 6.44B, representing a 8.42% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
9 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 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend CF 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.
CF’s current price about 8.48% and 19.19% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 75.74, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.13% and 1.38% in the 30-day chart. Further, CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) has a beta value of 0.95, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.65. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $87, forecast between a low of $87 and high of $87. Looking at the price targets, the low is 12.3% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move 12.3%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 12.3% jump to $87 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.5 over the past 10 days and 2.58 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 164.66 million shares.
The 0.72% of CF Industries Holdings Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 102.96% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.4 million on 2025-05-30, giving us a short ratio of 3.24. The data shows that as of 2025-05-30 short interest in CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF) stood at 614.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 8.54 million registered in 2025-04-30. Current price change has pushed the stock 16.27% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the CF stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
