Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) Not A Good Play Anymore?

Mosaic Company (MOS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $28.68, with 3.63 million shares of worth about $104.08 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -1.81% during that period and on January 29, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.77%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 317.87M shares, out of which, 315.12M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 3.17% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 19.10%. Year-to-date (YTD), MOS shares are showing a performance of 16.68% which decreased to -11.01% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $23.56 but also hit the highest price of $33.44 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Mosaic Company shares is 4.47 million. The stock is currently trading 8.25% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 10.29% for SMA50 and it goes to 3.90% higher than SMA200.

Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) currently have 317.87M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.21% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $9.11B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.35. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 25.29, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.13 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.49 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MOS, volatility over the week remained 2.82% while standing at 2.89% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -40.34% while it is estimated to increase by 20.61% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -14.68% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 23.51% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Barclays on January 21, 2025 offering an Underweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $30 and $27 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Mosaic Company (MOS) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 13, 2025, suggesting a price target of $30 for the stock. On December 10, 2024, CIBC Resumed their recommendations, while on March 01, 2024, Wolfe Research Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $39. Stock get an Underweight rating from Piper Sandler on February 29, 2024.

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