NYSE:CF - CF Industries Stock Price, Forecast & News

CF Industries trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CF."

CF Industries declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.13%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 13th. View CF Industries' Dividend History.

CF Industries announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, August 1st 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 4.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The basic materials company reported $0.25 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.26 by $0.01. The basic materials company earned $1.05 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.03 billion. The company's quarterly revenue was down 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.21 earnings per share. View CF Industries' Earnings History.

CF Industries is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for CF Industries.

16 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for CF Industries' shares. Their forecasts range from $37.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate CF Industries' share price to reach $49.73 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 29.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for CF Industries.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for CF Industries in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for CF Industries.

Media headlines about CF stock have trended neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. CF Industries earned a news sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for CF Industries.

CF Industries saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,750,000 shares, an increase of 19.6% from the January 15th total of 2,300,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,060,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.3 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View CF Industries' Current Options Chain.

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CF Industries' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (5.05%), FMR LLC (4.94%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.60%), Glendon Capital Management LP (1.31%), Platinum Investment Management Ltd. (1.05%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (0.99%). Company insiders that own CF Industries stock include Adam L Hall, Bert A Frost, Dennis P Kelleher, Douglas C Barnard, Richard A Hoker, Rosemary L O'brien and Stephen A Furbacher. View Institutional Ownership Trends for CF Industries.

CF stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, FMR LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, State Street Corp, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold CF Industries company stock in the last year include Bert A Frost, Dennis P Kelleher, Douglas C Barnard, Richard A Hoker and Stephen A Furbacher. View Insider Buying and Selling for CF Industries.

CF stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Samlyn Capital LLC, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., MUFG Securities EMEA plc, KBC Group NV and Schroder Investment Management Group. View Insider Buying and Selling for CF Industries.

Shares of CF can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CF stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.30.