Boom Or Bust: Where Does Ecovyst Inc (NYSE: ECVT) Stock Go From Here?

During the last session, Ecovyst Inc (NYSE:ECVT)’s traded shares were 1.31 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.05. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $6.89, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.92% or $0.13. The 52-week high for the ECVT share is $9.95, that puts it down -44.41 from that peak though still a striking 23.95% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $5.24. The company’s market capitalization is $808.89M, and the average trade volume was 1.10 million shares over the past three months.

Ecovyst Inc (ECVT) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.29. ECVT has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 1 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.

Ecovyst Inc (NYSE:ECVT) trade information

Ecovyst Inc (ECVT) registered a 1.92% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.92% in intraday trading to $6.89, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 15.22%, and it has moved by 24.37% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -29.69%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $10, which implies an increase of 31.1% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $9 and $10 respectively. As a result, ECVT is trading at a discount of -45.14% off the target high and -30.62% off the low.

While earnings are projected to return 7.25% in 2025, the next five years will return 25.43% per annum.

ECVT Dividends

Ecovyst Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

The next largest institutional holding, with 10.1 million shares, is of HOTCHKIS & WILEY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC’s that is approximately 8.6385% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $90.59 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Ecovyst Inc (ECVT) shares are ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST-Allspring Special Small Cap Value Fund and HOTCHKIS & WILEY FUNDS/DE/-Hotchkis & Wiley Small Cap Value Fund . Data provided on Feb 28, 2025 indicates that ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST-Allspring Special Small Cap Value Fund owns about 4.04 shares. This amounts to just over 3.44 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $27.83 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 3.96, or about 3.37% of the stock, which is worth about $27.27 million.