Currently, there are 324.10M common shares owned by the public and among those 319.74M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 67 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 48 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 1,920,194 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 19 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 865,322 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 31.94, down -1.33%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 2.83% and -14.25% over the past three months. MOS shares are trading -12.62% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -39.07% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $29.25 and touched a high of $57.16 over the same period. MOS has an average intraday trading volume of 4.70 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.81%, -5.64%, and -12.23% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) shares accounts for 85.77% of the company’s 324.10M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $10.04B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.51. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 8.94, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $3.49. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.78% over the week and 2.59% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Mosaic Company (MOS) will achieve an EPS of $0.77 for the current quarter, $0.85 for the next quarter and $3.05 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.53 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.97. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $1.14 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -12.44%, and 4.12% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the MOS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Scotiabank stated their Sector Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on February 22, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $40. Mizuho coverage for the Mosaic Company (MOS) stock in a research note released on January 24, 2024 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $34. Barclays was of a view on November 14, 2023 that the stock is Overweight, while Barclays gave the stock Underweight rating on August 14, 2023, issuing a price target of $40. HSBC Securities on their part issued Hold rating on July 26, 2023.
