Currently, there are 117.39M common shares owned by the public and among those 105.54M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -7.65% and 22.58% over the past three months. ECVT shares are trading -14.61% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -0.52% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $5.24 and touched a high of $9.91 over the same period. ECVT has an average intraday trading volume of 1.20 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 -5.82%, 3.61%, and 5.10% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Ecovyst Inc (NYSE: ECVT) shares accounts for 91.37% of the company’s 117.39M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $892.24M and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.14. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.10. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.82% over the week and 3.20% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 8.45%, and 46.65% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the ECVT, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Citigroup stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on September 11, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $12. BWS Financial coverage for the Ecovyst Inc (ECVT) stock in a research note released on March 23, 2022 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $18. Citigroup was of a view on November 29, 2021 that the stock is Neutral, while BMO Capital Markets gave the stock Outperform rating on August 16, 2021, issuing a price target of $17.
