Balchem Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:BCPC)

1 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Balchem in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" BCPC shares.
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1 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Balchem's shares. Their BCPC share price targets range from $135.00 to $135.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $135.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.0% from the stock's current price.
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Balchem's stock was trading at $122.11 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, BCPC stock has increased by 0.5% and is now trading at $122.71.
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Balchem saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 256,800 shares, an increase of 19.9% from the October 31st total of 214,200 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 85,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.0 days. Currently, 0.8% 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, February 23rd 2024.
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Balchem Co. (NASDAQ:BCPC) announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October, 27th. The basic materials company reported $0.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.91 by $0.01. The basic materials company had revenue of $229.95 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $238.47 million. Balchem had a net margin of 11.15% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.48%.

Balchem announced an annual dividend on Thursday, October 5th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.398 per share on Tuesday, January 16th. This represents a yield of 0.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 28th.
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Balchem (NASDAQ:BCPC) pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.58%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 14 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 22.26%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BCPC will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.83% 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 Balchem (NASDAQ:BCPC) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF (PSCM), Subversive Food Security ETF (KCAL), VanEck Future of Food ETF (YUMY), iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF (IJT), Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF (VIOG), SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Growth ETF (SLYG), VanEck Agribusiness ETF (MOO) and SPDR S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF (ESIX).

25 employees have rated Balchem Chief Executive Officer Dino A. Rossi on Glassdoor.com. Dino A. Rossi has an approval rating of 85% among the company's employees. 62.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Balchem to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Balchem investors own include Ecolab (ECL), CVS Health (CVS), AbbVie (ABBV), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Altria Group (MO), NVIDIA (NVDA), AT&T (T), Analog Devices (ADI) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY).

Balchem's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC (3.34%), Schroder Investment Management Group (1.74%), Morgan Stanley (1.63%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (1.61%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (1.25%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.24%). Insiders that own company stock include David B Fischer, Gunsteren Job Leonard Van, Michael Robert Sestrick and William A Backus.
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