Mosaic (MOS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mosaic in the last twelve months. 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 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Mosaic's shares. Their MOS share price targets range from $29.00 to $51.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $38.36 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 23.8% from the stock's current price.
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Mosaic's stock was trading at $35.73 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, MOS stock has decreased by 13.3% and is now trading at $30.98.
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Mosaic saw a increase in short interest in the month of 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 presently 1.4 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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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) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 1st. The basic materials company reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.66 by $0.01. The basic materials company had revenue of $2.68 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.88 billion. Mosaic had a net margin of 6.07% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.23%. Mosaic's quarterly revenue was down 25.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.14 EPS.
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Mosaic declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 21st. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 2.71%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. 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 37.67% 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), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RSPM), iShares Emergent Food and AgTech Multisector ETF (IVEG), VanEck Agribusiness ETF (MOO), iShares MSCI Agriculture Producers ETF (VEGI) and Bushido Capital US Equity ETF (SMRI).

Mosaic declared that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Monday, August 1st 2022, which authorizes the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 10.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board believes its shares are 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.23%), Capital World Investors (4.17%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (3.32%), LSV Asset Management (0.77%), Van ECK Associates Corp (0.36%) and Swedbank AB (0.36%). 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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