Currently, there are 317.87M common shares owned by the public and among those 315.12M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 6.89% and 3.75% over the past three months. MOS shares are trading 10.41% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -18.67% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $23.56 and touched a high of $33.44 over the same period. MOS has an average intraday trading volume of 4.26 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 8.77%, 4.68%, and -2.53% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) shares accounts for 86.27% of the company’s 317.87M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $8.62B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.33. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 23.93, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.13. The company has a PEG of 23.93 and a Quick Ratio of 0.49 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.36. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.13% over the week and 3.04% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Mosaic Company (MOS) will achieve an EPS of 0.59 for the current quarter, 0.58 for the next quarter and 2.4 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.47 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.47. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.71 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -40.24%, and 21.01% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 1.00% over the next five years, compared to 23.51% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MOS, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Piper Sandler stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on January 13, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $26-$30. CIBC coverage for the Mosaic Company (MOS) stock in a research note released on December 10, 2024 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $55. Wolfe Research was of a view on March 01, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while Piper Sandler gave the stock Underweight rating on February 29, 2024, issuing a price target of $42- $32. Scotiabank on their part issued Sector Outperform rating on February 22, 2024.
