Innospec (IOSP) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Innospec's stock was trading at $123.24 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, IOSP stock has decreased by 1.7% and is now trading at $121.10.
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Innospec saw a decline in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 218,800 shares, a decline of 20.1% from the March 15th total of 273,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 90,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 9th 2024.
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Innospec will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, May 10th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Innospec Inc. (NASDAQ:IOSP) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 13th. The specialty chemicals company reported $1.84 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.59 by $0.25. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $494.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $479.47 million. Innospec had a net margin of 7.14% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.69%. Innospec's quarterly revenue was down 3.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.20 earnings per share.

Innospec announced a Semi-Annual dividend on Monday, November 6th. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 20th will be given a dividend of $0.72 per share on Monday, November 27th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.4%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 17th. This is a boost from the stock's previous Semi-Annual dividend of $0.69.
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Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.17%. 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 25.85%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, IOSP will have a dividend payout ratio of 19.62% 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 Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Materials ETF (PSCM), Invesco Dorsey Wright Basic Materials Momentum ETF (PYZ), Invesco S&P SmallCap Quality ETF (XSHQ), JPMorgan Active Small Cap Value ETF (JPSV), Invesco S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF (XSLV), iShares S&P Small-Cap 600 Growth ETF (IJT) and Timothy Plan US Small Cap Core ETF (TPSC).SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap ETF (SLY).

12 employees have rated Innospec Chief Executive Officer Patrick S. Williams on Glassdoor.com. Patrick S. Williams has an approval rating of 96% among the company's employees. This puts Patrick S. Williams in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Innospec investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Altria Group (MO), Ecolab (ECL), Eastman Chemical (EMN), Corning (GLW), Realty Income (O), Pfizer (PFE), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Weyerhaeuser (WY) and Applied Materials (AMAT).

Innospec's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include First Hawaiian Bank (0.03%), Ballentine Partners LLC (0.02%) and Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Brian Watt, Claudia Poccia, Corbin Barnes, David B Jones, David Landless, Hardy Louis Griffin III, Ian Cleminson, Ian Malcolm Mcrobbie, Ian Malcolm Mcrobbie, Larry Padfield, Leslie J Parrette, Milton C Blackmore, Patrick Williams and Philip John Boon.
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