In the last trading session, 3.03 million Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.84. With the company’s per share price at $13.46 changed hands at $0.07 or 0.52% during last session, the market valuation stood at $2.34B. HUN’s last price was a discount, traded about -92.57% off its 52-week high of $25.92. The share price had its 52-week low at $11.90, which suggests the last value was 11.59% up since then. When we look at Huntsman Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.94 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.70 million.
Analysts gave the Huntsman Corp (HUN) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.61. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 10 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended HUN as a Hold, 7 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Huntsman Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be -0.1.
Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN) trade information
Instantly HUN was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 2.91%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -25.35%, with the 5-day performance at 2.91% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN) is -14.92% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 9.3 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.41 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 20, meaning bulls need an upside of 32.7% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, HUN’s forecast low is 20 with 20 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -48.59% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -48.59% for it to hit the projected low.
Huntsman Corp (HUN) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 3.09% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 12 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 1.49B. 12 analysts are of the opinion that Huntsman Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 1.62B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 1.47B and 1.57B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 1.36%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 2.96%.
The 2025 estimates are for Huntsman Corp earnings to increase by 137.61%.
HUN Dividends
Huntsman Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-16. The 7.43% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.00. It is important to note, however, that the 7.43% 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 3.29 per year.
Huntsman Corp (NYSE:HUN)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 5.45% of Huntsman Corp shares while 83.72% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 88.54%. There are 83.72% institutions holding the Huntsman Corp stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 9.5202% of the shares, roughly 16.38 million HUN shares worth $373.07 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.2835% or 14.26 million shares worth $324.61 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and SCHWAB STRATEGIC TRUST-Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF . With 5.14 shares estimated at $69.19 million under it, the former controlled 2.96% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, SCHWAB STRATEGIC TRUST-Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF held about 2.46% of the shares, roughly 4.28 shares worth around $57.63 million.
