In the latest trading session, 2.49 million Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.05. With the company’s most recent per share price at $27.76 changing hands around $0.56 or 2.08% at last look, the market valuation stands at $8.80B. MOS’s current price is a discount, trading about -20.46% off its 52-week high of $33.44. The share price had its 52-week low at $22.48, which suggests the last value was 19.02% up since then. When we look at Mosaic Company’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 5.47 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 5.52 million.
Analysts gave the Mosaic Company (MOS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.35. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 20 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended MOS as a Hold, 14 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Mosaic Company’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.46.
Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) trade information
Instantly MOS is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 12.45%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 12.96%, with the 5-day performance at 12.45% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) is 2.38% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 9.08 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.5 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 28, meaning bulls need an upside of 0.86% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, MOS’s forecast low is 26 with 44 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -58.5% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 6.34% for it to hit the projected low.
Mosaic Company (MOS) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 9.87% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 9 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 2.74B. 8 analysts are of the opinion that Mosaic Company’s revenue for the current quarter will be 3.06B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 2.68B and 2.82B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 2.13%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 8.52%.
The 2025 estimates are for Mosaic Company earnings to increase by 20.14%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 1.26% per year.
MOS Dividends
Mosaic Company is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-26. The 3.06% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.85. It is important to note, however, that the 3.06% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.56 per year.
Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.70% of Mosaic Company shares while 90.37% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 91.01%. There are 90.37% institutions holding the Mosaic Company stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 12.7897% of the shares, roughly 41.2 million MOS shares worth $1.19 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.781% or 28.28 million shares worth $817.4 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. With 9.97 shares estimated at $277.16 million under it, the former controlled 3.14% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.71% of the shares, roughly 8.6 shares worth around $239.08 million.
