In the last trading session, 6.97 million MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 2.26. With the company’s per share price at $31.49 changed hands at -$1.78 or -5.35% during last session, the market valuation stood at $5.15B. MP’s last price was a discount, traded about -24.17% off its 52-week high of $39.10. The share price had its 52-week low at $10.02, which suggests the last value was 68.18% up since then. When we look at MP Materials Corporation’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 11.39 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 9.44 million.
Analysts gave the MP Materials Corporation (MP) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.45. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 9 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended MP as a Hold, 8 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP) trade information
Instantly MP was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -9.80%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 145.06%, with the 5-day performance at -9.80% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP) is 44.52% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 30.92 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.15 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 23, meaning bulls need a downside of -36.91% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, MP’s forecast low is 12.5 with 47 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -49.25% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 60.3% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -41.29%. The 2025 estimates are for MP Materials Corporation earnings to decrease by -40.02%.
MP Dividends
MP Materials Corporation is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-08.
MP Materials Corporation (NYSE:MP)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 17.86% of MP Materials Corporation shares while 79.14% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 96.34%. There are 79.14% institutions holding the MP Materials Corporation stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 7.4701% of the shares, roughly 12.35 million MP shares worth $157.23 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 7.3006% or 12.07 million shares worth $153.67 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Apr 30, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 7.33 shares estimated at $230.67 million under it, the former controlled 4.48% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 2.52% of the shares, roughly 4.13 shares worth around $129.96 million.
