Mosaic (MOS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street 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 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 12 month price objectives for Mosaic's shares. Their MOS share price targets range from $32.00 to $55.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $40.27 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 32.9% 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 15.2% and is now trading at $30.29.
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Mosaic saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,550,000 shares, an increase of 43.5% from the February 29th total of 3,170,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,920,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.9 days. Approximately 1.4% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Mosaic will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 22nd. The basic materials company reported $0.71 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.82 by $0.11. The basic materials company earned $3.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.09 billion. Mosaic had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.69% and a net margin of 8.51%. The business's revenue was down 29.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.74 earnings per share.
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Mosaic announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 21st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, June 6th will be paid 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 2.77%. 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 2.71%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 24.07%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MOS will have a dividend payout ratio of 34.01% 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 (RSPM), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RTM), iShares Emergent Food and AgTech Multisector ETF (IVEG), First Trust Indxx Global Agriculture ETF (FTAG), VanEck Agribusiness ETF (MOO) and Proshares Equities For Rising Rates ETF (EQRR).

Mosaic declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback plan on Monday, August 1st 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 10.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board of directors 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Foundation Resource Management Inc. (0.20%), IMC Chicago LLC (0.00%), Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (0.03%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.02%), Sarasin & Partners LLP (0.02%) and Range Financial Group LLC (0.01%). 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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