Mosaic (MOS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mosaic in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" MOS shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MOS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Mosaic's shares. Their MOS share price targets range from $32.00 to $51.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $38.79 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 33.6% from the stock's current price.
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Mosaic's stock was trading at $35.73 at the start of the year. Since then, MOS shares have decreased by 18.7% and is now trading at $29.04.
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Mosaic saw a increase in short interest in April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,940,000 shares, an increase of 36.1% from the March 31st total of 5,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,790,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 6th 2024.
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The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) released its earnings results on Wednesday, May, 1st. The basic materials company reported $0.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.01. The basic materials company had revenue of $2.68 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.88 billion. Mosaic had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.23% and a net margin of 6.07%. Mosaic's revenue for the quarter was down 25.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.14 EPS.
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Mosaic announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 21st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, June 6th will be given a dividend of $0.21 per share on Thursday, June 20th. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.89%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 6th.
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Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.93%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 35.74%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MOS will have a dividend payout ratio of 34.15% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) stock in their portfolio include Subversive Food Security ETF (KCAL), First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund (FXZ), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RTM), iShares Emergent Food and AgTech Multisector ETF (IVEG), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RSPM), VanEck Agribusiness ETF (MOO), iShares MSCI Agriculture Producers ETF (VEGI) and First Trust Indxx Global Agriculture ETF (FTAG).

Mosaic declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Monday, August 1st 2022, which permits the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 10.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

61 employees have rated Mosaic Chief Executive Officer Joc O’Rourke on Glassdoor.com. Joc O’Rourke has an approval rating of 54% among the company's employees. This puts Joc O’Rourke in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mosaic investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Micron Technology (MU), AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), NVIDIA (NVDA), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Tesla (TSLA).

Mosaic's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include LSV Asset Management (0.77%), Van ECK Associates Corp (0.36%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.30%), BNP Paribas Financial Markets (0.27%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.20%) and Foundation Resource Management Inc. (0.20%). Insiders that own company stock include Corrine D Ricard, Denise C Johnson, Gregory L Ebel, James Calvin O'rourke, Mark J Isaacson, SA Vale and Walter F Precourt III.
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Shares of MOS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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