The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS – Get Free Report) Director Kelvin R. Westbrook sold 12,666 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $27.32, for a total value of $346,035.12. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 34,359 shares in the company, valued at approximately $938,687.88. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link.
Mosaic Stock Up 2.7 %
Shares of Mosaic stock traded up $0.75 on Tuesday, hitting $28.11. The company had a trading volume of 3,679,836 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,534,354. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.04 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.96, a P/E/G ratio of 1.59 and a beta of 1.41. The Mosaic Company has a twelve month low of $26.09 and a twelve month high of $40.71. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a current ratio of 1.16 and a quick ratio of 0.51. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $28.30 and a 200-day moving average of $30.05.
Mosaic (NYSE:MOS – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 6th. The basic materials company reported $0.54 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.66 by ($0.12). The company had revenue of $2.82 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.90 billion. Mosaic had a net margin of 6.07% and a return on equity of 8.23%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 17.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.04 EPS. Research analysts predict that The Mosaic Company will post 2.59 earnings per share for the current year.
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Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Wells Fargo & Company dropped their target price on Mosaic from $31.00 to $29.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday. Piper Sandler dropped their target price on Mosaic from $29.00 to $28.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, June 11th. Scotiabank dropped their price objective on Mosaic from $40.00 to $38.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a report on Monday, May 6th. Barclays dropped their price objective on Mosaic from $42.00 to $39.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Monday, May 13th. Finally, UBS Group dropped their price objective on Mosaic from $33.00 to $30.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, July 9th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Mosaic has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $35.92.
Mosaic Company Profile
The Mosaic Company, through its subsidiaries, produces and markets concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Phosphates, Potash, and Mosaic Fertilizantes. It owns and operates mines, which produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients, such as diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, and ammoniated phosphate products; and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients primarily under the Biofos and Nexfos brand names, as well as produces a double sulfate of potash magnesia product under K-Mag brand name.
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