Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN) price on current trading day, rose 0.13% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $11.33.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $11.32, moving within a range at $11.145 and $11.36. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.745. Turning to its 52-week performance, $25.12 and $10.13 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HUN moved -0.66% over the past month.
Huntsman Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $1.97 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-01. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.00, with its dividend yield at 8.82%. 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 1.51B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.47B and 1.58B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -3.90% 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 5.94B, representing a -1.57% decline 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 HUN is a 50% Sell. 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.
10 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 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 7 recommend HUN 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.
HUN’s current price about 3.12% and -3.23% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 52.35, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.15% and 3.88% in the 30-day chart. Further, Huntsman Corp (HUN) has a beta value of 0.71. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $16, forecast between a low of $12 and high of $20. Looking at the price targets, the low is -5.91% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -76.52%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -41.22% jump to $16 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.26 over the past 10 days and 4.15 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 172.60 million shares.
The 5.79% of Huntsman Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 88.07% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.36 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 2.43. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Huntsman Corp (HUN) stood at 509.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 7.7 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -49.35% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HUN stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
