GrafTech International (EAF) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for GrafTech International in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" EAF shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EAF, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for GrafTech International's shares. Their EAF share price targets range from $1.50 to $2.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $1.88 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 26.3% from the stock's current price.
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GrafTech International's stock was trading at $2.19 at the beginning of the year. Since then, EAF shares have decreased by 32.2% and is now trading at $1.4850.
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GrafTech International saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 14,050,000 shares, an increase of 18.2% from the February 29th total of 11,890,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,800,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.7 days. Approximately 7.3% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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GrafTech International will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, April 26th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE:EAF) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 14th. The company reported ($0.27) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.14) by $0.13. The company had revenue of $137.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $141.20 million. GrafTech International had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 39.57% and a negative net margin of 41.14%. GrafTech International's quarterly revenue was down 44.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.17 EPS.

GrafTech International announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 10th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, May 31st will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, June 30th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.69%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, May 30th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of GrafTech International (NYSE:EAF) stock in their portfolio include Euclidean Fundamental Value ETF (ECML), USCF Sustainable Battery Metals Strategy Fund (ZSB) and Global X Disruptive Materials ETF (DMAT).WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund (EES).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other GrafTech International investors own include Ballard Power Systems (BLDP), Micron Technology (MU), Enbridge (ENB), Intel (INTC), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Arbutus Biopharma (ABUS), CVS Health (CVS), Chevron (CVX), HP (HPQ) and International Business Machines (IBM).

GrafTech International (EAF) raised $850 million in an IPO on Thursday, April 19th 2018. The company issued 37,800,000 shares at $21.00-$24.00 per share. J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Citigroup, RBC Capital Markets, HSBC, BMO Capital MarketsBNP PARIBAS, CIBC Capital Markets and National Bank Financial were co-managers.

GrafTech International's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Foundation Resource Management Inc. (0.70%), O Keefe Stevens Advisory Inc. (0.64%) and Welch Group LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include David J Rintoul, Gp Ltd Bcp and Jean-Marc Germain.
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