In the latest trading session,, 2.41 million Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.87. With the company’s most recent per share price at $26.83 changed hands at -$0.17 or -0.65% at last look, the market valuation stands at $18.96B. DOW’s current price is a discount, trading about -108.61% off its 52-week high of $55.97. The share price had its 52-week low at $25.06, which suggests the last value was 6.6% up since then. When we look at Dow Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 14.92 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 10.71 million.
Analysts gave the Dow Inc (DOW) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 2.83. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 13 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 7 recommended DOW as a Hold, 5 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW) trade information
Instantly DOW was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -0.17%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -49.58%, with the 5-day performance at -0.17% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW) is -6.83% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 33.53 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.92 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 31, meaning bulls need an upside of 13.45% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, DOW’s forecast low is 22 with 40 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -49.09% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 18.0% for it to hit the projected low.
The 2025 estimates are for Dow Inc earnings to decrease by -83.18%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 2.94% per year.
DOW Dividends
Dow Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-24. The 10.44% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 2.80. It is important to note, however, that the 10.44% 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 5.49 per year.
Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.18% of Dow Inc shares while 67.86% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 67.98%. There are 67.86% institutions holding the Dow Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.6306% of the shares, roughly 81.86 million DOW shares worth $4.34 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.2547% or 51.06 million shares worth $2.71 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 22.17 shares estimated at $595.61 million under it, the former controlled 3.14% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.77% of the shares, roughly 19.55 shares worth around $525.43 million.
