During the last session, MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP)’s traded shares were 18.0 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.20. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $27.58, reflecting an intraday gain of 10.01% or $2.51. The 52-week high for the MP share is $29.72, that puts it down -7.76 from that peak though still a striking 63.67% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $10.02. The company’s market capitalization is $4.51B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 9.99 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.07 million shares over the past three months.
MP Materials Corporation (MP) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.64. MP has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 9 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 8 recommend a Buy rating for it.
MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP) trade information
MP Materials Corporation (MP) registered a 10.01% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 10.01% in intraday trading to $27.58, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 15.83%, and it has moved by 2.80% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 67.15%. The short interest in MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP) is 21.62 million shares and it means that shorts have 6.42 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $21.25, which implies a decrease of -29.79% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $19.5 and $23 respectively. As a result, MP is trading at a premium of 16.61% off the target high and 29.3% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -41.29%. While earnings are projected to return 40.93% in 2025.
MP Dividends
MP Materials Corporation is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-19. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP)’s Major holders
MP Materials Corporation insiders own 18.82% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 76.04%, with the float percentage being 93.67%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 520.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 12.07 million shares (or 7.3006% of all shares), a total value of $153.67 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 12.35 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 7.0759% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $157.23 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of MP Materials Corporation (MP) shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 7.47 shares. This amounts to just over 4.57 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $205.97 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.65, or about 2.23% of the stock, which is worth about $100.69 million.
